Question follow-through · 21275
Drax Power Station: Subsidies
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make it his policy to retrieve the subsidy payments made to the Drax power station.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 19 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2025 · 25 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make it his policy to retrieve the subsidy payments made to the Drax power station.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2025
Answer published
Ofgem’s recent investigation did not find any evidence to suggest that Drax had been issued with subsidies incorrectly. Whilst Drax complied with sustainability standards, it had failed to report data accurately. This is a serious matter and Government ex...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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