Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much of her Department's budget has been spent on renewable energy projects in each of the last five years.

Between 2011 and 2016, UK Aid provided 12 million people with improved access to clean energy and installed more than 400 MW of clean energy capacity.

DFID funding for renewable energy is through bilateral programmes and contributions to multilateral funds, multilateral development banks and climate-specific funds such as the Climate Investment Funds (https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/projects/GB-1-200368) where there are significant renewable energy ambitions. Renewable energy programme spend for the previous 5 years is publically available through DevTracker.