Commons Speaker berates the Energy Secretary for unveiling the Jackdaw gas field approval on TV before telling MPs
A North Sea oil and gas rig like those in the Jackdaw field, which Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh approved despite admitting the decision "won't mean cheaper bills.Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh, whose approval of the Jackdaw field has drawn "betrayal" accusations from the Labour Left and the Greens, with gas due to flow from the end of the month.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle told the Commons: 'I'm sorry that Aberdeen is more important than the MPs they've elected.' Miatta Fahnbulleh was doing interviews at the St Fergus terminal and left junior minister Michael Shanks to face MPs. Hoyle called it 'an immense discourtesy' and asked whether her department was briefing the media deliberately. Fahnbulleh admitted the gas would not lower bills this winter.
Hoyle suggested a leak inquiry after the decision was trailed in the press overnight.
Green leader Zack Polanski called the approval 'disastrous' and said it 'will do nothing to lower bills'.
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