MPs slam lack of transparency from government over green energy subsidies

Madeleine Cuff
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Public Accounts Committee says government must do more to inform bill payers how subsidies are being spent, but would such transparency help or hinder clean energy?

MPs have blasted the government's handling of green energy subsidies, labelling its failure to meet a commitment to annually spell out how billpayers' money is being spent on clean energy as lacking "transparency,...

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