Coal: Export Credit Guarantees

(asked on 4th February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2020 to Question 9090 on Fossil Fuels: Export Credit Guarantees, what estimate she has made of the amount of Government investment in coal projects through UK Export Finance in each year since 2015.


Answered by
Conor Burns Portrait
Conor Burns
This question was answered on 10th February 2020

I refer the Hon. Member for Dulwich and West Norwood to the answer I gave to the Hon. Member for Brighton Pavilion on 23 January 2020, UIN: 5385

To clarify, UK Export Finance (UKEF) does not invest equity or provide funding into projects. The support provided by the Department is in the form of financing, insurance or guarantees for loans.

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