---

Energy Bill

When Drax said that it was intending to use 10 per cent of biomass, it accompanied that with an announcement that most of it would have to come from Scandinavia or somewhere like that. That raises severe practical questions, of not only the economic cost but the CO2 cost of transporting biomass over a large area. My question about the amendment is not with the spirit in which it was moved—I am all in favour of biomass, and my house in Scotland has been heated by a wood-burning stove cheaply, effectively and successfully for many years—but there are practicalities which putting a precise figure on does not take account of.