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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of excluding onshore wind from the Government's future Contract for Difference procurement strategy on electricity bills.

The Department has not made an assessment of the potential effect on electricity bills of future decisions on the deployment of onshore wind.

It is important that, as the costs of generating technologies fall, we move steadily to an operating model in which competitive markets deliver the energy on which our country depends. The Department has requested stakeholders’ views on how we can deploy electricity generation through competitive markets without the requirement for ongoing subsidy as part of our Industrial Strategy consultation.