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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what data they hold on the proportion of wood pellets used in the Drax Power Station that are sourced from British boreal and temperate forests; and what assessment they have made of the impact of this on keeping those forests intact.

Data on biomass sourcing is publicly available on Ofgem’s website and information for the latest available year can be accessed there.

The UK only supports sustainable biomass and generators only receive subsidies for biomass that complies with strict sustainability criteria.

UK forests are protected by forestry and Environmental Impact legislation in the four administrations of the UK together with the requirements of the UK Forestry Standard, while we have committed to increase annual UK planting rates to 30,000 hectares by the end of this Parliament.