Carbon Emissions: Subsidies

(asked on 18th May 2026) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the total annual value of (a) direct and (b) indirect taxpayer-funded subsidies supporting net zero policies and programmes, broken down by scheme.


Answered by
Lucy Rigby Portrait
Lucy Rigby
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
This question was answered on 21st May 2026

Tax reliefs for net zero policies and programmes can be found in the ‘estimated cost of tax reliefs’ document here: Tax reliefs - GOV.UK. To support net zero, government has allocated £65bn in capital spending to clean energy, climate and nature including nuclear across 2025/26 to 2029/30- an average of £16bn a year.

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