Following public consultation earlier this year and scrutiny by the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, the Government has today ‘laid before Parliament’ its National Policy Statement for Geological Disposal Infrastructure. It is expected that the NPS will be finally designated i.e. published, in the late Summer/Autumn.

This NPS will be used as the primary basis for the examination by the Planning Inspectorate, and for decisions by the Secretary of State, in considering development consent applications for geological disposal infrastructure i.e. deep investigation boreholes or a GDF (geological disposal facility).