First Delegated Legislation Committee
29 June 2026
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First Delegated Legislation Committee House of Commons
00:00 - 00:11
Speaker 2
The draft Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026.
00:11 - 00:13
Speaker 1
I call the Minister to move the motion.
00:13 - 01:40
Speaker 4
Hear, hear. Thank you very much, Ms McPherson. It's a pleasure to serve in this committee under your chairmanship, and I beg to move that the House approves the Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026, which were laid before the House on the 14th of May. Before outlining the provisions made by this draft instrument, if I can briefly provide some context. The Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning, which for the sake of all our time I'll now call OPRED, minimizes the impact of the offshore oil and gas sector on the environment by controlling air emissions and discharges to sea and reducing disturbance over the life cycle of operations from seismic surveys through to post-decommissioning monitoring.
OPRED recoups the eligible costs of its regulatory functions from industry in the offshore oil and gas sector in two ways: firstly, by using regulations that are covered by these fees regulations, and secondly, by five charging schemes. The charging schemes do not require legislative change and will be amended administratively. OPRED's average income from fees is around 7.3 million pounds annually, recovered from around 100 companies. Currently, the fees that OPRED charge are based on rates of 210 pounds per hour for environmental specialists and 114 pounds per hour for non-specialists. Environmental specialists are technical staff who carry out the functions of the Secretary of State, and non-specialists are the support staff.
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