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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to increase the use of energy recovery from waste.

Energy from waste (EfW) plays an important role in diverting waste from landfill sites, however we are working across Government to ensure that it does not compete with greater recycling, reuse and prevention.

EfW technologies, including EfW with combined heat and power, and waste gasification, are eligible for support under the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme. To date the CfD scheme has supported two EfW projects and nine waste gasification projects.

The Clean Growth strategy announced that up to £557 million will be available for future CfDs and that the next CfD auction is planned for spring 2019.