Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation of 12 December 2017, Official Report, Column 169-70, what target his Department has set for the proportion of UK energy needs to be delivered from renewable sources by 2030.

The UK does not have renewables targets to 2030. The Government has just published its Clean Growth Strategy, which sets out our plans to build on the successful decarbonisation of the power sector, while looking further across the whole of the economy and the country.