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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much public funding his Department has made available to SMEs through the Climate Change Agreements Scheme in each financial year since 2019-2020.

The Climate Change Agreements scheme provides participating organisations with significant reductions to the Climate Change Levy rates paid on their energy consumption in return for meeting energy efficiency or carbon reduction targets. The estimated costs of non-structural reliefs are published by HM Revenue and Customs.

These estimate that the Climate Change Agreements Scheme provided reductions in Climate Change Levy to participating organisations of £245m in 2019-20, £210m in 2020-21 and £255m in 2021-22. Organisations of all sizes have been able to participate in the scheme provided they operate an eligible process. Estimates of the total benefit for SMEs only are not available.