To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps he is taking to ensure that awards of grant aid for renewable installations in the public sector to be made under his Department’s Low Carbon Building Programme Phase 2 will be widely available to companies of all sizes; and if he will make a statement. (113039)

Grants under Phase 2 of the Low Carbon Buildings Programme are only available for installations in the public sector or the charitable/voluntary sector. In order to receive the grant, the public sector body (or charity/voluntary organisation) has to purchase the installation through one of 7 suppliers on the Framework associated with Phase 2. The companies on the Framework vary in size from major utilities to much smaller scale dedicated micro-generation companies.