Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Callanan on 18 July (HL9062), what was the factual basis behind his answer on 3 July (HL Deb col 984) that the BBC Panorama programme on Drax "provided an inaccurate representation of practices by the forestry and biomass sector".

Officials engaged extensively with the Government of British Columbia and Canadian forestry experts. They reviewed information from these sources and elsewhere about timber sales operations, timber harvests, forest stewardship, and the harvest system in place in British Columbia to assess the relevance of the claims.