Question follow-through · 55009

Renewable Energy: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 11 April 2025 to Question 43723 on Carbon Emissions: Trees, whether it is standard practice for officials in his Department to receive time-limited access to documen

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Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Tabled
30 May 2025
Target answer date
3 Jun 2025
Answer
9 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 11 April 2025 to Question 43723 on Carbon Emissions: Trees, whether it is standard practice for officials in his Department to receive time-limited access to documen

  2. 3 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    DESNZ officials were granted access by Drax to review the KPMG reports in January 2025. These reports were internal fact-finding documents, commissioned by Drax under legal privilege to review their biomass supply chain against the sustainability requirem...

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