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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department plans to take in response to the Environmental Audit Committee's recommendations to (a) remove the barriers to community energy and (b) implement practical support measures to enable community energy to fulfil its role of engaging people and communities in net zero.

The Government is supportive of community energy. We have responded to the Environmental Audit Committee’s recommendations, our response can be viewed here:

https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/62/environmental-audit-committee/publications/3/correspondence/.