Speaker of the House Sir Lindsay Hoyle has called it ‘shameful’ that the UK Government’s decision to give the Jackdaw gas field the go-ahead was announced to the media before the Commons.

The controversial project, 150 miles east of Aberdeen and owned by Adura, has been approved despite campaigning by environmental groups and warnings from energy analysts.

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