BGS regularly responds to consultations and inquiries from Government departments, parliamentary committees, local authorities and public bodies. We provide impartial geoscience data, evidence and expertise to support decision making and policy formation.
| Consultation/inquiry subject | Consulting body | BGS response | Submission date |
| River Leen Strategy SEA Scoping Report Consultation
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Environment Agency | download response | July 2026 |
| Review of Mineral Licensing | Department for the Economy, Northern Ireland | download response | June 2026 |
| Eskdalemuir seismic array: revised approach to managing onshore wind turbine interference | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero | download response | June 2026 |
| New Towns Draft Programme | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | download response | May 2026 |
| Critical Minerals | Business and Trade Sub Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Control | download response | April 2026 |
| National Planning Policy Framework: proposed reforms and other changes to the planning system | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | download response | March 2026 |
| Gas system in transition: security of supply | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero | download response | February 2026 |
| Consultation/inquiry subject | Consulting body | BGS response |
Submission date |
| New Towns: Creating Community | House of Lords Built Environment Committee | download response | December 2025 |
| Home buying and selling reform | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | download response | December 2025 |
| Area of Research Interest: Industrial Decarbonisation | Scottish Parliament | download response | November 2025 |
| Key Agencies Planning Survey | Scottish Government | download response | October 2025 |
| Coastal Erosion and Landslips | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee | download response | October 2025 |
| Modernising Environmental Permitting for Industry | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | download response | October 2025 |
| CCUS future network strategy | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero | download response | October 2025 |
| Post Implementation Review of the Storage of Carbon Dioxide Regulations | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero | download response | September 2025 |
| Innovation and Global Food Security | Science, Innovation and Technology Committee | download response | September 2025 |
| Positioning, Navigation and Timing Growth | Department for Science, Innovation and Technology | download response | September 2025 |
| The NDA group Draft Strategy 2025 | Nuclear Decommissioning Authority | download response | September 2025 |
| ESO Centralised Strategic Network Plan | National Energy System Operator | download response | August 2025 |
| Request for planning permission: Entertainment Resort Complex, Bedford | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | download response | August 2025 |
| Offshore wind energy – draft updated Sectoral Marine Plan 2025 | Offshore Wind Directorate, Scottish Government | download response | August 2025 |
| Developing UKRI’s research data policy | UK Research and Innovation | download response | August 2025 |
| Enhancing banks’ and insurers’ approaches to managing climate-related risks | Bank of England
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download response | July 2025 |
| Science diplomacy | Science, Innovation and Technology Committee | download response | April 2025 |
| Hydrogen policy | Welsh Government | download response | May 2025 |
| UK economic security | Business and Trade Sub Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Control | download response | April 2025 |
| Building the North Sea’s energy future | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero | download response | April 2025 |
| Land Use | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | download response | April 2025 |
| The environmental and economic legacy of Wales’s industrial past | Welsh Affairs Committee | download response | February 2025 |
| Glasgow City Council Development Plan 2 | Glasgow City Council | download response | February 2025 |
| Science and Technology for Growth – A new HMG Africa Approach | Department for Science, Innovation and Technology | download response | February 2025 |
| Guidance on the requirements for authorisation and staged regulation for the disposal of solid radioactive waste | Environment Agency | download response | February 2025 |
| Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill | Welsh Parliament | download response | January 2025 |
| Consultation/inquiry subject | Consulting body | BGS response |
Submission date |
| Proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework and other changes to the planning system | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | download response | September 2024 |
| Flood resilience strategy | Scottish Government | download response | August 2024 |
| UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals | United Nations | download response | July 2024 |
| Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS): non-pipeline transport and cross-border CO2 networks | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero | download response | July 2024 |
| Proposed regulations for the disclosure of carbon storage information and samples | North Sea Transition Authority | download response | April 2024 |
| Strengthening planning policy for brownfield development | Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities | download response | 26 March |
| Industrial policy to meet net zero | Business and Trade Committee | download response | January 2024 |
| Consultation/inquiry subject | Consulting body | BGS response | Submission date |
| Geospatial opportunities across the economy | Geospatial Commission | download response | December 2022 |
| Thames Estuary 2100 Plan | Environment Agency | download response | November 2022 |
| Independent Review of Net Zero | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero | download response | September 2022 |
| Blue Carbon and Ocean-Based Solutions to Climate Change | All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Ocean | download response | August 2022 |
| Coal extraction | Scottish Government | download response | August 2022 |
| Geothermal technologies | Environmental Audit Committee | download response | July 2022 |
| Onshore conventional oil and gas | Scottish Government | download response | August 2022 |
| Coal Tip Safety (Wales) White Paper | Welsh Government | download response | August 2022 |
| Hydrogen and carbon capture in Scotland | Scottish Affairs Committee | download response | July 2022 |
| National Underground Asset Register | Geospatial Commission | download response | June 2022 |
| Environmental targets | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | download response | June 2022 |
| Nature Recovery Green Paper: Protected Sites and Species | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | download response | May 2022 |
| Draft National Planning Framework 4 | Scottish Government | download response | March 2022 |