PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Wind Power: Seas and Oceans (13 April 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his Department's policy is on (a) maintaining and (b) increasing financial support for the offshore wind sector in the next five years.

Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour)

The Government announced £730m of support for offshore wind and other less established renewable electricity generation technologies in Budget 2016. This funding will go towards projects beginning from 2021 onwards, which will receive a share of this annual budget for the duration of their 15-year contracts.

Allocation of the first tranche of this support, totalling £290m, began in November last year and projects receiving this support will be announced later this year. The remainder of the support is expected to be allocated before 2020.

Answered by:
Jesse Norman (Conservative)
20 April 2017