{"value":{"id":77587,"askingMemberId":4127,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2014-07-14T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2014-07-17T00:00:00","uin":"205700","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the cost of claims pursuant to his Department's Feed-in Tariffs consultation launched in October 2011; and if he will make a statement.","answeringBodyId":63,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Energy and Climate Change","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":3983,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2014-07-22T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Following the changes made in 2011, the solar PV industry has enjoyed huge success in the UK. The industry is now worth £2.2 billion a year. This owes much to carefully-controlled Government support, and at the same time tariff changes which protected consumers from a £50 a year bill rise by 2020.</p><p>In good faith, we proposed what we believed to be lawful changes to subsidies, in the interests principally of protecting consumers from rising bills at a time when windfall profits meant that the solar PV industry was booming, and we do not have the information necessary to estimate the value of the claims.</p><p>There are elements of the judgment which we will be seeking permission to appeal.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":"2014-07-17T00:00:00","attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Renewable Energy: Feed-in Tariffs","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/77587","method":"GET"}]}