Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions officials in his Department have had with relevant stakeholders on subsidies for energy generation for domestic purposes.

The Government continues to have significant engagement with industry including manufacturers, installers, trade associations and industry standards bodies. There have been no subsidies available for electricity generation at domestic-scale since the Feed-in Tariffs scheme closed in March 2019. However, in 2020, the Government introduced the Smart Export Guarantee, a market-led mechanism, enabling small-scale renewable generators, such as households with solar panels or small wind turbines, to receive payment for excess electricity sold back to the grid.