Letter: Greener cuts

The Green Investment Bank Commission, set up by the Chancellor, has stated that £550 billion of funding will be needed if the government's 2020 target for carbon emissions reduction is to be met.

Most of this money will go to supporting wind farms and, as a result, most of it will go overseas to foreign firms and workers. All of these wind farms are unnecessary additions to the conventional power stations we already have and will always need, so scrapping wind farms altogether could only have a beneficial effect. Here then is an opportunity for the Chancellor to "cut" this unnecessary expense and save the country 550bn. It makes his present ambition to save a paltry 81bn - at considerable cost to us all - look like the efforts of an ill-informed amateur.

WILLIAM OXENHAM

Easter Currie Place

Currie