Committee calls for DECC spending to be saved

One committee chairman has called for the budget of the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to be saved.

Speaking to the Guardian, Tim Yeo, chairman of the Energy and Climate Change Committee, highlighted the problems that the UK will face if spending is cut to the DECC in nine days time.

Concerns were also raised about funding for new wind farms in the UK and the protection of energy quangos.
Mr Yeo told the news source that cutting spending on low carbon technologies would be like reducing funds for Spitfires in 1939, claiming that the "destabilisation of the global climate also poses a grave threat to our long term national security".

He added: "In future, climate change could jeopardise our food security, cause unprecedented mass migration and conceivably even spark wars. It would be folly, and something of a false economy, to cut investment on green infrastructure now."

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