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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a Market Stability Mechanism Contract for Difference.

A number of stakeholders have suggested the concept of a market-stabilising Contract for Difference for Pot 1 technologies. Officials are currently assessing these suggestions, and Ministers have therefore not yet made any decisions regarding the proposed options.