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date	21/11/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Sizewell C Power Station: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the announcement in the Autumn Statement on 17 November 2022 that the Government will invest £700 million in the proposed Sizewell C nuclear power plant, (a) whether he plans to allocate any additional public funds to that plant and (b) whether he expects that private finance will be required for that plant.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	92311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government aims to approve the pledged investment in Sizewell C this month, subject to final approvals for the investment. This funding would come from the up to £1.7bn of Government funding made available in the 2021 Spending Review for developing a large-scale nuclear project to final investment stage in this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>Final approvals and details surrounding this investment will be announced in due course. Details of the project’s potential financial structure are subject to ongoing, commercially sensitive negotiations.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has established a Regulated Asset Base (RAB) funding model to attract private investment into new nuclear projects.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 29/11/2022 17:59:15 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1543950

registered interest
date	21/11/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Energy Efficiency Taskforce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to establish the Energy Efficiency Taskforce announced in the Autumn Statement on 17 November 2022; and which organisations he plans to invite to join that body.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	92313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>More details on the timing, scope and membership of the Taskforce will be announced in due course.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 29/11/2022 17:36:46 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1522811

registered interest
date	17/10/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Biofuels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of any plans to amend its biomass sustainability criteria in the forthcoming Biomass Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	64271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government issued a call for evidence in 2021 (<a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fconsultations%2Frole-of-biomass-in-achieving-net-zero-call-for-evidence&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary.PQ%40BEIS.gov.uk%7C04ecc173b3d147c404f508dab2827c6a%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C638018570737292106%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=MYr9PlqR%2BL12hjLbPNIr9EmHb8zr0u6ODF1F3Yuvp5I%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/role-of-biomass-in-achieving-net-zero-call-for-evidence</a>) to seek stakeholder views and evidence on a range of biomass-related questions. This included potential improvements to the biomass sustainability criteria. The responses to the call for evidence, alongside feedback from extensive stakeholder engagement, are feeding into recommendations for further strengthening of the UK’s already stringent biomass sustainability criteria, which we will set out in the forthcoming Biomass Strategy.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 20/10/2022 16:02:34 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones