Pressing the Prime Minister over solar PV chaos
2nd November 2011
At Prime Minister's Questions today, Alan Whitehead MP urged David Cameron to intervene personally to sort out the chaos caused by his government's decision to slash promised funding for community and household solar energy.
You can watch Alan's question below, by skipping to the 19.41 mark on the recording below.
Alan asked the PM:
"Just before the election the Prime Minister said his government would be the greenest ever. Does he still take this statement seriously, and if he does will he personally intervene to sort out the appalling chaos caused by the slashing of feed in tariffs in 6 weeks time for solar PV, leading to substantial job losses, chaos in the solar PV industry and devastation for hudreds of community renewable projects?"
The Prime Minister chose to give an answer that did not mention feed in tariffs or solar power.
Speaking after PMQs, Dr Whitehead said:
“There is growing chaos in Government over energy policy, with trumpeted renewable and small scale green energy projects now increasingly being strangled at birth by the Treasury. This is exactly the type of departmental warfare that requires leadership from the Prime Minister to resolve. It’s very disappointing that today Mr Cameron chose not to show leadership on this issue, but I’ll continue pressing him to step up to the challenge.”
See also: Policy lurches are killing our solar industry's future
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