Carbon Trust and Energy Saving Trust

Andrew Rosindell

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much funding from the public purse was provided to the (a) Carbon Trust and (b) Energy Saving Trust in each of the last five years. (255860)

Carbon Trust funding from the public purse, from 2003-04 to 2007-08, was as follows:

	£
2003-04	59,770,000
2004-05	63,331,000
2005-06	71,838,000
2006-07	96,247,000
2007-08	¹119,324,000
¹ Includes £14,001,000 of accrued income—i.e. income payable to the Carbon Trust under arrangements for 2007-08, but disbursed in 2008-09 when funds were required.

This includes funding from BERR, DEFRA, and the Devolved Administrations.

Energy Saving Trust funding from the public purse, from 2003-04 to 2007-08, was as follows:

*As published in the Energy Saving Trust Limited’s audited accounts*
£000
	Funding from public purse for the year ended 31 March
	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004
DEFRA	29,800	43,227	33,710	34,449	30,533
DfT	8,526	7,811	9,902	22,655	30,575
BERR/Dti	6,466	14,469	8,481	6,940	3,253
Scottish Government	10,149	8,358	6,082	7,676	6,328
Total	54,941	73,865	58,175	71,720	70,689

Volume 490: debated on Monday 30 March 2009