Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what cost savings her Department is planning to make in the current financial year.

Spending Round 2013 set the Department’s budget for 2015-16, including efficiency savings. Details can be found via the link below.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/209036/spending-round-2013-complete.pdf

Subsequently, on 4^th June 2015, the Government announced further efficiency savings to be delivered in 2015-16. DECC’s contribution to that exercise was to find an addition £70M of efficiency savings.