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

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what total annual payments were made for renewable heat under the renewable heat incentive (RHI) in (a) 2012-13, (b) 2013-14, (c) 2014-15 and (d) 2015-16 to date; and how such payments compared to the RHI budget estimates for each such year.

Figures for payments made under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) are published in our annual accounts, which are available through DECC’s website at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/decc-annual-reports-and-accounts.

Available figures for the years requested are attached.

Payment figures for 2015/16 are not available yet; but we will publish these in our 2015/16 accounts, which we expect to publish in July this year. The budget figure for 2015/16 is £430m.