Updated: Government proposes shale gas sovereign wealth fund

Will Nichols
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Ministers confirm plans to re-invest fracking revenues, as tensions emerge over what to do with the money

A plan for new shale gas tax revenues to be deployed in a UK sovereign wealth fund is to be debated in the House of Lords today. Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey said over the weekend that...

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