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Drax Power Station: Timber

Asked by Claire CoutinhoConservativeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled Answered 9 June 2025UIN 55012

The question

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, if he will publish emails where the KPMG report was discussed.

Answered by Michael Shanks

We have determined that it would not be in the public interest to release further information on this issue in this instance. Protecting commercially sensitive information facilitates the frank exchange of information between the private sector and government, and ensures ministers and civil servants can have honest, unfiltered discussions during the policy-making process.

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