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Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil

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Question for Department for Energy and Climate Change

UIN 209161, tabled on 12 September 2014

Question

Mark Hendrick
Labour
Preston
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the budget is for the Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil for each of the years 2014-15 to 2017-18.

Answer

Matthew Hancock
Conservative
West Suffolk
Commons

Answered on

13 October 2014

The 2014-15 budget for the Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil is currently £1.8m, which covers an office of 15 staff as well as programme funding for activities including research, communications and public engagement .

Current plans for 15-16 are for £1.8m, but are subject to DECC’s internal business planning process. Future years will be subject to Spending Review discussions with the Treasury on DECC’s overall baseline.

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