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Energy Bill

The noble Lord, Lord O’Neill, reminded me of a point which I found interesting while doing the background research and being the subject of lobbying. As a subject, I find co-firing extremely interesting, but of course there are only three power stations in the country that are available for co-firing at present—or which have built the upgrades to deal with it. I believe that it is Drax and two stations owned by British Energy. A lot of the work done on the banding of co-firing was based on a consultation process. Is the Minister happy with the fact that the majority of respondents to the consultation process are those companies in direct competition with those companies dealing with co-firing and, therefore, their view might be slightly slanted on how they looked at co-firing? The consultation document might read in a different way because most of the companies responding are not involved in co-firing themselves.