Extract from Treasury Questions: Support for Businesses and Entrepreneurs - Nov 6

In his Budget speech, the Chancellor failed to make one single mention of climate change, yet by scrapping enhanced capital allowances for small and medium-sized enterprises, the Government have again cut vital support for Energy Efficiency and decarbonisation. Given the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change climate change report and given this Government’s support for fracking and their abysmal failure on tidal, onshore wind and solar, do the Conservatives realise that not only will they fail to meet their climate change targets, but they have breached their quota for hot air on this issue?

The hon. Gentleman might have been too busy preparing his question for today and in the process have missed the industrial Energy Efficiency fund that we have committed to introduce.