Plaid: Green business confidence 'shattered' in Wales Plaid Cymru's Westminster leader Elfyn Llwyd criticised the government's decision to cut funding for feed-in tariffs saying that green business confidence had been "shattered" in Wales. On 29 February 2012 during Wales Office questions Mr Llwyd said that green technology was a "key industry" in Wales and that businesses would be deterred from investing if "Whitehall can remove funding with the flick of the pen." Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales David Jones said that the criticism should be "directed at the previous government" and that new measures would "ensure stability in the industry and a fair rate of return for investors." Mr Jones added that the sector was "extremely important to the Welsh economy." Under the feed-in tariffs programme, people in Britain with solar panels are paid for the electricity they generate. The government had said that subsidies for households that installed solar panels after 12 December 2011 would fall by as much as half from April 2012 to ensure that the scheme carried on in the future. The changes have been ruled legally flawed by the High Court but the government has said it would defend a challenge at judicial review. Questions also covered inward investment in Wales, support for the Welsh language and reducing the administrative burden for businesses in Wales.