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
28 April 2022
This bill would stop new licences to search for or drill for petroleum on land and ban onshore hydraulic fracturing (fracking). It also directs the Oil and Gas Authority to focus on delivering the UK's 2050 carbon reduction targets and to publish strategies that plan for phasing out petroleum extraction and use, with a transition towards renewable energy.
The bill is at its first reading in the Lords. If it progresses, it would move to further stages in the Lords (committee, report and third reading) and would then need to pass to the Commons.
Generated 21 February 2026
First reading took place on 24 March. 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 2021-2022 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
