Harlow's Liberal Democrat spokesman Lorna Spenceley has written to Labour's Energy Minister Mike O'Brien MP calling for the Government to reverse their decision to cut grants for new solar power schemes.

The cuts end a grant allocation scheme for solar power, which harnesses sunlight to generate electricity, officially planned to run until 2012.

Mrs Spenceley says:

"Climate change is the biggest issue facing us around the planet. This complete U-turn in Government policy will slow down progress on tackling that, and will be very damaging to the future of solar power industry.

"This is yet another Government failure in a long list of broken promises on renewable energy. Pulling out of an investment scheme that was promised until 2012 is a disgrace."