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 is taking to support the roll-out across the UK of new technology that converts sewage into hydrochar; and what assessment his Department has made of the potential applications of hydrochar in decarbonising the UK economy.

The forthcoming Biomass Strategy, due to be published later this year, will further detail the Government’s position on future biomass use and policies needed to support biomass across the economy. It is the Government’s intention to ensure that biomass is only used where it complies with its net zero and wider environmental goals.