Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 103225

Biofuels: Carbon Emissions

Tabled: 6 January 2026
Answered: 14 January 2026

Question

Tim Farron

Liberal DemocratWestmorland and Lonsdale

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what progress his Department has made in implementing the advice in Table 1 on numbered page 19 of the Climate Change Committee’s report titled ‘Biomass in a low carbon economy’ (November 201

Answer

Martin McCluskey
The department’s schemes support biomass installations only in rural areas and if additional eligibility criteria are met. New ecodesign standards setting higher minimum efficiency standards for solid fuel space heaters, including wood burning stoves, hav...

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