division_name: Infrastructure Bill [Lords] &#8212; New Clause 9 &#8212; Moratorium on onshore unconventional petroleum
motion: <p pid="d.619.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8216;(1) All use of land for development consisting of the exploitation of unconventional petroleum in Great Britain shall be discontinued during the relevant period.</p>
  
  <p pid="d.619.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">(2) The Secretary of State must ensure that an independent assessment is undertaken of the exploitation of unconventional petroleum in Great Britain including the use of high volume hydraulic fracturing.</p>
  
  <p pid="d.619.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">(3) The assessment must take account of the impacts of the exploitation of the unconventional petroleum on&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="d.619.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">(a) climate change;</p>
  
  <p pid="d.619.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">(b) the environment;</p>
  
  <p pid="d.619.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">(c) health and safety; and</p>
  
  <p pid="d.619.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">(d) the economy.</p>
  
  <p pid="d.619.1/8" pwmotiontext="yes">(4) The Secretary of State must&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="d.619.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes">(a) consult such persons as the Secretary of State thinks fit; and</p>
  
  <p pid="d.619.1/10" pwmotiontext="yes">(b) publish the assessment</p>
  
  <p pid="d.619.1/11" pwmotiontext="yes">within the relevant period.</p>
  
  <p pid="d.619.1/12" pwmotiontext="yes">(5) For the purposes of subsections (1) to (4)&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="d.619.1/13" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;relevant period&#8221; means a period of not less than 18 months and not more than 30 months commencing on the date two months after Royal Assent;</p>
  
  <p pid="d.619.1/14" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;unconventional petroleum&#8221; means petroleum which does not flow readily to the wellbore.</p>
  
  <p pid="d.619.1/15" pwmotiontext="yes">(6) In section 3 of the Petroleum Act 1998, at the end of subsection (4) add &#8220;and subsection (4A).</p>
  
  <p pid="d.619.1/16" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;(4A) Nothing in this section permits the grant of a licence to search and bore for and get unconventional petroleum in Great Britain during the relevant period.</p>
  
  <p pid="d.619.1/17" pwmotiontext="yes">(4B) For the purposes of subsection (4A) &#8220;relevant period&#8221; and &#8220;unconventional petroleum&#8221; have the meaning specified in section [Moratorium on onshore unconventional petroleum] of the Infrastructure Act 2015.&#8221;&#8212;<i>(Dr Huppert.)</i></p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="d.619.1/18" pwmotiontext="yes">Brought up.</p>
  
  <p pid="d.619.1/19" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put,</i> That the clause be added to the Bill.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="d.619.1/20" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="d.619.1/21" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 52, Noes 308.</p>