Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero on 10 February (HC Deb cols 41–43), what plans they have to phase out subsidies for large-scale biomass generation.

Our decision to provide support to Drax was based on the need to ensure security of supply out to 2031. There are no plans to extend subsidies beyond that date.

To ensure that we have a greater set of options available to secure supply post 2031 we are supporting low carbon dispatchable generation like the Net Zero Teeside CCUS plant. We have also recently consulted on reforms to the Capacity Market, our mechanism for ensuring security of supply, including proposals aimed at procuring new dispatchable enduring capacity.