All-Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Oil and Gas

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Oil and Gas states that it "was formed to provide a forum for transparent, evidence based discussion around the issue of unconventional oil and gas development in the UK."

People

Parliamentary Officers

• Chair: Dan Byles MP
• Vice-Chair: Charles Hendry MP
• Vice-Chair: Chris Pincher MP
• Vice-Chair: John Robertson MP
• Vice-Chair: Mark Menzies MP
• Vice-Chair: Nigel Mills MP
• Vice-Chair: Steve Baker MP
• Vice-Chair: Tessa Munt MP

Twenty Qualifying Members

• Government Party: Dan Byles – Con | Mark Menzies – Con | Charles Hendry – Con | Tessa Munt – LD | Chris Pincher – Con |Nigel Mills – Con | Steve Baker – Con | Chris Heaton-Harris – Con | James Wharton – Con | Jack Lopresti – Con
• Main Opposition Party: John Robertson | Jim Fitzpatrick | John Spellar | Brian H. Donohoe | Albert Owen | Ian Lavery | Angela C. Smith | Thomas Docherty | Graham Stringer
• Other: Jeffrey Donaldson - DUP

Benefits received by the group from outside Parliament

• Edelman (a consultancy) acts as the group’s secretariat.

Associate membership fees received:

• £1200 from Ground Gas Solutions (registered May 2013)
• £3000 from Cuadrilla
• £3000 from Ove Arup & Partners
• £3000 from Statoil
• £10,000 from INEOS (registered June 2013)
• £5000 from UK Onshore Operators Group (registered July 2013).

External resources

• Energy Minister reveals more than 300 UK fracking sites given green light, ClickGreen, 15 May 2013.
• Priyanka Shrestha, MPs lobby group denies fracking funding, 23 August 2013.