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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they still regard the risk of a funding shortfall in the Clean Technology Fund as "high", and whether contingency funds are in place in the case of premature sunsetting of the Climate Investment Funds.

The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) Administrative Unit and Multilateral Development Banks have reviewed the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) pipeline to identify projects that are no longer likely to go ahead and have assessed the impact of this on the expected shortfall. A paper on this will be presented at the forthcoming June 2016 CIF Trust Fund Committee meetings.

A decision on when the CIF will review its sunset clause is expected to be made at the June CIF Trust Fund Committee meetings.