Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the terms and conditions governing HETAS’s contract with his Department to manage the Biomass Suppliers List require it to declare (a) current and (b) future potential conflicts of interest.
The administrator of the Biomass Suppliers’ List is Woodsure. Woodsure is a fully owned subsidiary of HETAS.
The Department’s standard terms and conditions of contract include reference to conflict of interest, this requires contractors to declare any potential conflict of interest to the Secretary of State.