Ninth Report - Revised (Draft) National Policy Statement for Energy

Select Committee
Business and Trade Committee HC 1151 25 February 2022
Report Status Government responded
Conclusions & Recommendations 20 items (14 recs)
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Government Response (AI assessment · 12 of 20 classified)
Accepted 5
Accepted in Part 1
Acknowledged 2
Deferred 2
Not Addressed 1
Rejected 1
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Recommendations

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2 Accepted in Part
Para 24
As currently drafted, revised (draft) EN-1 does not provide the “step change” needed to deliver...
Recommendation
As currently drafted, revised (draft) EN-1 does not provide the “step change” needed to deliver the required scale of new NSIPs at a sufficiently rapid pace to deliver the Government’s net zero aims. This is largely due to ambiguity in … Read more
Government Response Summary
The government states that NPSs will start with a presumption in favour of granting consent to applications for energy NSIPs and draft EN-1 has been updated to introduce a new policy presumption known as a critical national priority (CNP) for offshore wind.
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