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 how many UK solar companies have gone out of business or stopped installing solar PV as a result of policy changes made since May 2015.

Asked by:
Helen Hayes (Labour)

We recognise the efforts the solar industry is making to adapt following those changes; changes that we had to make to protect billpayers from the ever-increasing costs of support.

We are encouraged by the way the industry is responding: deployment of solar under the revised FIT scheme continues, at rates that match those seen historically following revisions to the scheme.

We expect that deployment will increase further as costs continue to fall, and the industry acclimatizes to the new system.

Answered by:
Andrea Leadsom (Conservative)
1 June 2016