PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Solar Power (18 May 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of the number of job losses in the UK solar SME sector arising from the closure of the feed-in tariff scheme and its replacement with a capped scheme.

Asked by:
Helen Hayes (Labour)

The projected employment impacts of the revised feed-in tariff scheme were set out in Annex C of the impact assessment published alongside the FIT Review government response. This can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/486084/IA_-_FITs_consultation_response_with_Annexes_-_FINAL_SIGNED.pdf

This is a UK success story with 99% of solar installed since 2010 and 8GW already deployed.

Answered by:
Andrea Leadsom (Conservative)
1 June 2016