UK government raids lottery to fund a wind farm

The Sunday Times reports that the UK government has used lottery funds to help pay for a wind farm by a foreign company.

£10 million will go to a subsidiary of Elsam, a Danish energy giant that is being taken over by the Danish government, will help to pay for a wind farm four miles offshore in Liverpool Bay.

Hugo Swire, the shadow secretary for culture, media and sport, said: "We all recognise the need to tackle global warming, but what justification can there be for spending national lottery money on a Danish-owned wind farm?"

The lottery has already given £18 million to the German energy outfit E.ON to build a power station in Scotland.

The government already uses taxpayers cash to subsidise renewable energy.