But opposition parties say the government has been too slow to react.
Labour’s shadow economic secretary to the Treasury, Pat McFadden, said the crisis “should have been foreseen” – which means that he thinks the Conservative government should have predicted what happened.
And the leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey said that the crisis showed that the UK’s energy policy was “lamentable”.
The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, responded to criticism saying he does “not expect supply emergencies” and described warnings about shortages as “alarmist”.
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