Written question asked by Bob Spink (Conservative) on Tuesday, 24 September 2002, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 21 October 2002. It was answered by Brian Wilson (Labour) on Monday, 21 October 2002 on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry.

Dept of Trade and Industry

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the constituencies where there are (a) operational and (b) potential bulk gas storage facilities suitable for transmission into the National Grid.

Answer: Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list the constituencies where there are (a) operational and (b) potential bulk gas storage facilities suitable for transmission into the National Grid. [74325] Mr. Wilson: The major gas storage facility serving the market in Great Britain is the partially depleted Rough field in the Southern North Sea. The main existing onshore facilities are: Hornsea, east Yorkshire; five LNG (liquefied natural gas) storage facilities which are integral to the national transmission system and are owned and operated by Transco (at Avonmouth, Avon; Dynevor Arms, mid-Glamorgan; Glenmavis, Lanarkshire; Isle of Grain, Kent; and Partington, Lancashire); and two facilities which recently commissioned, at Hatfield Moor in east Yorkshire and Hole House Farm in Cheshire. A proposed facility at Aldborough, east Yorkshire, has secured planning permission and is under development. In addition a project at Byley in Cheshire is currently seeking planning permission, and a project at Fleetwood in Lancashire is understood to be close to applying for planning permission.

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