Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment the Government has made of the potential impact of the closure of the feed-in tariff on (a) investments in new renewable energy projects, (b) investments in new community renewable energy projects and (c) the ability of low-income communities to set up their own community renewable energy projects.

No post-closure assessment of the Feed-in Tariffs (FIT) scheme has been undertaken. Data available on the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) dashboard indicates that current deployment of solar at this small-scale, which accounts for 99% of all installations supported under the FIT scheme, is comparable to levels seen under the scheme prior to 2016 when reduced FIT tariffs were introduced.