To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change with reference to the answer of 14 October 2009, Official Report, columns 990-91W, on climate change: research, how much his Department has spent on modelling work into the environmental consequences of (a) injecting sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere, (b) encouraging low level cloud development to increase regional reflectivity and (c) other forms of geo-engineering. (303501)

The amount of funding that the Department of Energy and Climate Change has spent on modelling work into the environmental consequences of different types of geo-engineering is:

(a) injecting sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere: £80,000;

(b) encouraging low level cloud development to increase regional reflectivity: £60,000; and

(c) other forms of geo-engineering: £15,000.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit. (304033)

Officials from the Department have had brief discussions with representatives of the University of East Anglia and its Climatic Research Unit to understand the nature of the attack on its IT systems and the actions they are planning to take.