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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the Smart Export Guarantee in incentivising small-scale renewable energy generation, in comparison with the Feed-In-Tariff scheme.

The recently published Ofgem Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) annual report highlighted a significant increase in the number of installations registering for a SEG tariff (34,020 installations compared to 4,593 from Year 1). The market continues to offer a range of SEG tariffs offering different rates for exported electricity, with some rates comparable to those which were provided in the latter stages of the Feed In Tariff (FIT) scheme.