Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential contribution by UK businesses to the Indian Government's plan to replace all coal plants over 25-years old with super-critical coal plants.

The Government supports initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and move to low carbon forms of electricity generation. We see a move away from the use of coal, the most carbon intensive of fuels, as an essential part of this.