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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 25 October (HL2459), what figures were used for carbon dioxide emissions from wood, per unit of fuel or per unit of weight, in the emissions from biomass reported as a memo item in Table 1s2 of the background data accompanying the UK Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990–2014.

In the emissions from biomass reported as a memo item in Table 1s2 of the background data accompanying the UK Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990-2014, the figures for carbon dioxide emissions from burning one tonne of wood are: 1.055 tonnes for power stations, 1.416 tonnes for domestic combustion and 1.767 tonnes for other industrial combustion.