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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the contribution that new (a) coal-fuelled, (b) gas-fuelled, (c) hydro, (d) solar and (e) wind electricity generating capacity will play in alleviating energy poverty in each of its priority countries.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy does not make its own assessment of the energy mix in other countries: it reviews the analysis done by the International Energy Agency and other multilateral bodies, together with assessments by the countries themselves, in determining which technologies can most effectively alleviate energy poverty challenges.