Speeches

Caroline Flint – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Flint on 2014-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to his oral contribution of 2 April 2014, Official Report, column 908, on energy price freeze, what the evidential basis is for the statement that there is a pipeline of £187 billion of investment in the electricity sector.

Michael Fallon

The latest National Infrastructure Pipeline data published by HM Treasury in December 2013, in support of the National Infrastructure Plan 2013. This shows that total combined investment for electricity generation, transmission & distribution, when aggregated from 2013/14 onwards in real terms, is £187.4bn:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263460/national_infrastructure_pipeline__2013.xlsx.