Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to encourage the development of decentralised renewable energies in developing countries.

The UK Government has stepped up its efforts to play a leading role in improving energy access in developing countries through decentralised renewable energy programmes to help meet the basic energy needs of some of the poorest people in the world.

For example, our Results Based Financing programme is improving people’s access to modern energy in countries of Africa by speeding up and growing markets for businesses to deliver affordable energy to households.

Through the UK Government’s International Climate Finance we have so far improved energy access for 6.6 million people in developing countries.