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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Renewable Heat Incentive, what assessment he has made of the prevalence of participants who are (a) not complying with or (b) gaming the regulations; and what assessment he has made of impact of those actions of the effectiveness of that scheme.

Ofgem’s 2020/21 audit programme indicates a non-compliance rate of 0.4% for non- domestic Renewable Heat Incentive participants and 4.5% for domestic.

The impact of non-compliance is published annually in the BEIS Annual Report and Accounts:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021.

Reforms have been implemented to tackle gaming as it arises. The Government is confident that the prevalence and impact of gaming is low.