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 effect of levels of energy obtained from waste plants on the achievement of carbon reduction targets.

BEIS' Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics 2017 (DUKES) indicates that the installed electricity generation capacity of energy from waste plants was over 1,000MW at the end of 2016.

Our recently published Clean Growth Strategy made clear that the waste sector as a whole has become an important contributor to electricity generation while also delivering significant emission reductions.