Subject	Predicate	Object
41WbVaWs	a	Resource
		Answer
		Written answer
	answer has question	W0KUgEWW
	answer has answering person	Amber Rudd
	answer text	<p>Following the changes made in 2011, the solar PV industry has enjoyed huge success in the UK. The industry is now worth £2.2 billion a year. This owes much to carefully-controlled Government support, and at the same time tariff changes which protected consumers from a £50 a year bill rise by 2020.</p><p>In good faith, we proposed what we believed to be lawful changes to subsidies, in the interests principally of protecting consumers from rising bills at a time when windfall profits meant that the solar PV industry was booming, and we do not have the information necessary to estimate the value of the claims.</p><p>There are elements of the judgment which we will be seeking permission to appeal.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
	answer given date	2014-07-22
	answer has answering body	Department of Energy and Climate Change
	written answer has answering body	Department of Energy and Climate Change
Department of Energy and Climate Change	answering body has written answer	41WbVaWs
Department of Energy and Climate Change	answering body has answer	41WbVaWs
W0KUgEWW	question has answer	41WbVaWs
Amber Rudd	answering person has answer	41WbVaWs