Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on the possibility of making the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund available to householders in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement.

DECC Ministers meet regularly with Ministers in the Northern Ireland Office to discuss a range of issues. As has been the case with successive administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings. A proportion of the funding that has been used in England and Wales for the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund has been made available separately to the Scottish and Northern Irish Governments.