Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what direct funding her Department has allocated for projects which deliver low-carbon development in (a) the present financial year and (b) each further financial year until 2020-21.

Support for low carbon development is provided mainly through the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) and the Levy Control Framework (LCF).

The RHI budget for 2015-16 is £430m. Budgets for future years are the subject of the Spending Review.

Details of the LCF forecast for each year to 2020-21 can be found in table 2.7 of the Fiscal Supplementary Tables, which are located at the following link: http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/economic-fiscal-outlook-july-2015/