To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 26 March 2009, Official Report, column 709W, on the Renewables Advisory Board, when he expects to finalise the Renewables Advisory Board budget for 2009-10. (290132)

We expect the budget for the Renewables Advisory Board (RAB) to be finally agreed in the early autumn.

I can however confirm that for the three months April to June the spend for RAB was £36,257.