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date	26/01/2022
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: Subsidies
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 he will publish the (a) number of meetings between officials in his Department and Drax Group at which the issue of continuing subsidy payments to Drax beyond 2027 has been raised and (b) dates on which those meetings took place.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	112660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2022 answer text <p>UK Government officials meet regularly with businesses and stakeholders that are involved in renewable electricity generation. As a major renewable electricity generator in the UK officials meet regularly with Drax Group.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 03/02/2022 15:24:46 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1416879

registered interest
date	26/01/2022
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	Power Stations: Biofuels
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 estimate his Department has made of the cost to (a) the public purse and (b) each household of renewable subsidies to (i) the Drax power station and (ii) all power stations that burn biomass for energy.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	112661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2022 answer text <p>The Renewables Obligation and Contracts for Difference schemes support Drax and other power stations that burn biomass to generate renewable electricity. There is no cost to the public purse as both schemes are paid for by compulsory levies on electricity suppliers. In 2020/21, the total cost to suppliers in Great Britain of the support for Drax under the Renewables Obligation was £467.2m, and the cost for all power stations, including Drax, that burn biomass for energy was £914.5m[1]. Payments to individual biomass generating stations supported by the Contracts for Difference scheme are published by the Low Carbon Contracts Company on their Data Portal[2]. The Government does not assess the cost to individual householders of the support specifically for stations using biomass.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Support under the Renewables Obligation is through tradeable certificates. The figures, which are provisional as not all the certificates may have been issued yet, give the cost to suppliers based on Ofgem’s certificate report as at 14 January 2022 from their Renewables and CHP Register at: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.renewablesandchp.ofgem.gov.uk%2FPublic%2FReportViewer.aspx%3FReportPath%3D%2FDatawarehouseReports%2FCertificatesExternalPublicDataWarehouse%26ReportVisibility%3D1%26ReportCategory%3D2&amp;data=04%7C01%7Ckatherine.donne%40beis.gov.uk%7C86e6103085524d83384508d9e25e2659%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637789716254280852%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=QN5tQbi73BkAio2bltYLFfkB8QjXCEozLfE0v3G5hDc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.renewablesandchp.ofgem.gov.uk/Public/ReportViewer.aspx?ReportPath=/DatawarehouseReports/CertificatesExternalPublicDataWarehouse&amp;ReportVisibility=1&amp;ReportCategory=2</a></p><p> </p><p>[2] The Low Carbon Contracts Company’s Data Portal is at: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lowcarboncontracts.uk%2Fdashboards%2Fcfd%2Factuals-dashboards%2Fhistorical-dashboard&amp;data=04%7C01%7Ckatherine.donne%40beis.gov.uk%7C86e6103085524d83384508d9e25e2659%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637789716254280852%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=sYqhipD4qmpcPlKLmOVF%2FAzS4szDVHTDlR2CcwyittQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.lowcarboncontracts.uk/dashboards/cfd/actuals-dashboards/historical-dashboard</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 03/02/2022 15:24:20 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse