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1472838

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date	23/06/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Drax Power Station: Timber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2022 to Question 132331 on Drax Power Station: Timber, what was the age profile of forests felled for use in the Drax power station.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	23777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government does not hold this data. Generators only receive subsidies for biomass that complies with strict sustainability criteria, which includes requirements under both land and greenhouse gas criteria. More information on the sustainability criteria can be found on the Ofgem website <a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/renewables-obligation-sustainability-criteria" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/renewables-obligation-sustainability-criteria</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 01/07/2022 11:51:42 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1472839

registered interest
date	23/06/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to his Answer of 1 April 2022 to Question 146696 on Carbon Emissions: Coal and Timber, what quantity of carbon dioxide emissions did the UK report internationally as a memo item for (a) Drax Group from the burning of wood in its power station and (b) all UK bioenergy production in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	23778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2022 answer text <p>Defra publish the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register to comply with the Kyiv Protocol requirements. For 2020, the most recent year with available data, the total carbon dioxide emissions from the Drax site in North Yorkshire were 14.3 million tonnes and the carbon dioxide emissions excluding biomass were 1.53 million tonnes. This implies that burning wood at the Drax power station emitted 12.8 million tonnes of biomass derived carbon dioxide.</p><p> </p><p>The quantity of carbon dioxide emissions from biogenic sources that the UK reported internationally to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for 2020 was 47.198 million tonnes.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 01/07/2022 11:59:04 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1472523

registered interest
date	22/06/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate he has made of the total lifetime payments to participants under the British Renewable Heat Initiative scheme through to 2042 for the (a) domestic and (b) non-domestic scheme.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	23355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>The Renewable Heat Initiative (RHI) will pay participants until March 2041 and BEIS has so far committed £6,414million for expenditure until financial year 2022/23. The total lifetime payments estimates are inherently uncertain as they depend on the future volume of heat that will be produced and on the future tariffs at which the heat produced will be paid.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 27/06/2022 14:36:50 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1472534

registered interest
date	22/06/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Boilers: Heating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the findings of openDemocracy on the disparity between (a) the time it takes for some biomass boilers to pay for themselves and (b) owners continuing to receive payments in excess of the cost of fuel, if he will take steps to (i) identify and (ii) retrospectively reduce payments to people who are in receipt of a subsidy for heating systems that have already returned to the owner the cost of their installation.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	23356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to stop or reduce retrospectively tariff payments for existing Renewable Heat Incentive participants.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 30/06/2022 15:43:12 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 9337 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1472535

registered interest
date	22/06/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if the Government will launch an independent inquiry into the British non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	23357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>The National Audit Office undertook a review of the Renewable Heat Incentive in 2018. The Government does not intend to carry out a independent inquiry.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 27/06/2022 14:37:47 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day