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Written question asked by Lord Laird (Non-affiliated) on Thursday, 19 October 2017, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 2 November 2017. It was answered by Lord Prior of Brampton (Conservative) on Thursday, 26 October 2017 on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme

Question

To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) what was the cost of the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme in Great Britain in each of the last four years; (2) what is the budget for the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme subsidy payments for the next six years; (3) why a cap was introduced in 2016; and (4) at what cost level it is pegged.

Answer

Data on payments from the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) schemes are given in the table below.

Year

Domestic RHI

Non-domestic RHI

Total

13/14

0

£54m

£54m

14/15

£23m

£148m

£171m

15/16

£77m

£296m

£373m

16/17

£92m

£454m

£546m

Based on data to end Aug 2017


In November 2015, the Government confirming a continued budget for the RHI to 2020/21, as set out in the table below. A budget cap allowing the scheme to be closed to new applications was introduced to reinforce existing cost control mechanisms within the RHI, to ensure that scheme expenditure does not exceed the allocated annual budgets.

16/17

17/18

18/19

19/20

20/21

Budget

£640m

£780m

£900m

£1010m

£1150m

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL2277
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Costs Renewable heat incentive scheme
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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