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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason on-farm solutions, such as biomethane, are not included in the Green Gas Support Scheme.

The primary objectives of the GGSS are to reduce emissions of the gas grid and ensure value for money for the billpayer. Paying tariffs to biogas plants on farms that do not inject the biomethane they produce into the gas grid carries the risk of overcompensation and therefore poor value for money to the billpayer. Billpayers would be paying for renewable gas from which they, or the gas suppliers, would never actually benefit.