Climate Change: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the net cost to the Exchequer of the Government’s Climate Change Agreements in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. (320517)

I have been asked to reply.

Estimates of the net cost to the Exchequer of the Government’s Climate Change Agreements are available in Table 7 of the pre-Budget report Tax Ready Reckoner.