A Bill to prohibit licensing to search and bore for petroleum and onshore hydraulic fracturing activities; to amend the principal objective for the Oil and Gas Authority to be to meet the carbon reduction target for 2050 under the Climate Change Act 2008; and to provide for the Oil and Gas Authority to produce strategies which include the phasing out of the extraction and use of petroleum and transitional planning towards renewable energies
House of Lords
5 May 2021
The Petroleum (Amendment) Bill [HL] would ban new licences to search for or bore for petroleum on land and ban onshore hydraulic fracturing. It also requires the Oil and Gas Authority to align its aims with the 2050 carbon reduction target and to produce strategies that include phasing out petroleum extraction and use and guiding a transition to renewable energy.
The bill is currently at the second reading in the House of Lords and has not yet reached committee stage.
Generated 21 February 2026
First reading took place on 15 January. This stage is a formality that signals the start of the Bill's journey through the Lords.
Second reading - the general debate on all aspects of the Bill - is yet to be scheduled.
The 2019-2021 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
