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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of gas CHP plant qualifies as Good Quality for the purposes of exemption from business rates.

The Department does not hold specific data on the proportion of gas CHP plant that qualifies as Good Quality for the purposes of exemption from business rates. However, in 2016, based on data from the Digest of UK Energy Statistics and the Combined Heat and the Power Quality Assurance (CHP QA) programme database, there were 2,182 CHP schemes in the United Kingdom. Of these, 1,155 were certified as Good Quality CHP. If schemes that are not ordinarily liable for business rates, such as those in the public sector, are excluded then our data suggests that 749 Good Quality gas CHP schemes would be eligible for an exemption from business rates.