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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what meetings he or Ministers of his Department had with representatives of the renewable energy industry on the forthcoming Contracts for Difference auction before that auction was announced.

My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State and Ministers regularly meet with representatives of the renewable energy industry to discuss a variety of issues. All Ministerial meetings with external organisations are published quarterly on the gov.uk website at the following link:

www.gov.uk/government/collections/decc-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-meetings-and-travel