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1283707

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2021
	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	Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many applications were received from schools for the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme; and what was the value of any such applications.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Benjamin
	uin	HL12925
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2021 answer text <p>711 applications were received in total from schools and academies for the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme. These have a combined value of £429 million.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 17/02/2021 15:07:45 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	4167 label Biography information for Baroness Benjamin

1285096

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2021
	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	Ofgem
	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 Energy White Paper, on what date his Department plans to begin consulting on a Strategy and Policy Statement for Ofgem.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	151767
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2021 answer text <p>As we said in the Energy White Paper, we will consult later this year on a Strategy and Policy Statement (SPS) for Ofgem. The Energy Act 2013 sets out the procedural requirements for designating a SPS, which includes consultation with Scottish and Welsh Ministers.</p><p> </p><p>The SPS will set out the strategic priorities of our energy policy, the outcomes we seek to achieve and the roles of government, Ofgem and other parties which are collectively responsible for delivering these goals.</p><p> </p><p>The SPS will require the Secretary of State and Ofgem to carry out their regulatory functions in a manner which is consistent with securing the government’s policy outcomes. This will include the UK’s legally binding target of net zero emissions by 2050, noting the separate targets in Scotland and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem’s principal duty is to protect the interests of existing and future consumers, which includes their interests in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan grouped question UIN 151768 151769 151770 question first answered 17/02/2021 14:40:14 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1285097

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2021
	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	Ofgem
	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 Energy White Paper, what the objectives are of the Strategy and Policy Statement for Ofgem.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	151768
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2021 answer text <p>As we said in the Energy White Paper, we will consult later this year on a Strategy and Policy Statement (SPS) for Ofgem. The Energy Act 2013 sets out the procedural requirements for designating a SPS, which includes consultation with Scottish and Welsh Ministers.</p><p> </p><p>The SPS will set out the strategic priorities of our energy policy, the outcomes we seek to achieve and the roles of government, Ofgem and other parties which are collectively responsible for delivering these goals.</p><p> </p><p>The SPS will require the Secretary of State and Ofgem to carry out their regulatory functions in a manner which is consistent with securing the government’s policy outcomes. This will include the UK’s legally binding target of net zero emissions by 2050, noting the separate targets in Scotland and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem’s principal duty is to protect the interests of existing and future consumers, which includes their interests in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan grouped question UIN 151767 151769 151770 question first answered 17/02/2021 14:40:14 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1285098

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2021
	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	Ofgem
	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 Energy White Paper, whether the Strategy and Policy Statement for Ofgem is planned to include an assessment of the effectiveness of Scotland's Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	151769
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2021 answer text <p>As we said in the Energy White Paper, we will consult later this year on a Strategy and Policy Statement (SPS) for Ofgem. The Energy Act 2013 sets out the procedural requirements for designating a SPS, which includes consultation with Scottish and Welsh Ministers.</p><p> </p><p>The SPS will set out the strategic priorities of our energy policy, the outcomes we seek to achieve and the roles of government, Ofgem and other parties which are collectively responsible for delivering these goals.</p><p> </p><p>The SPS will require the Secretary of State and Ofgem to carry out their regulatory functions in a manner which is consistent with securing the government’s policy outcomes. This will include the UK’s legally binding target of net zero emissions by 2050, noting the separate targets in Scotland and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem’s principal duty is to protect the interests of existing and future consumers, which includes their interests in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan grouped question UIN 151767 151768 151770 question first answered 17/02/2021 14:40:14 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1285099

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2021
	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	Ofgem
	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 Energy White Paper, whether the Strategy and Policy Statement for Ofgem is planned to align that organisation’s objectives with the Climate Change Act 2008 (2050 Target Amendment) Order 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	151770
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2021 answer text <p>As we said in the Energy White Paper, we will consult later this year on a Strategy and Policy Statement (SPS) for Ofgem. The Energy Act 2013 sets out the procedural requirements for designating a SPS, which includes consultation with Scottish and Welsh Ministers.</p><p> </p><p>The SPS will set out the strategic priorities of our energy policy, the outcomes we seek to achieve and the roles of government, Ofgem and other parties which are collectively responsible for delivering these goals.</p><p> </p><p>The SPS will require the Secretary of State and Ofgem to carry out their regulatory functions in a manner which is consistent with securing the government’s policy outcomes. This will include the UK’s legally binding target of net zero emissions by 2050, noting the separate targets in Scotland and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem’s principal duty is to protect the interests of existing and future consumers, which includes their interests in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan grouped question UIN 151767 151768 151769 question first answered 17/02/2021 14:40:14 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1283741

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2021
	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	Fossil Fuels
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact that ceasing to use fossil fuels would have on (1) controlling climate change, and (2) preventing the extinction of species.
	tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
	uin	HL12966
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2021 answer text <p>Ceasing emissions from the use of fossil fuels would substantially reduce future warming, however continued emissions from other sectors, including agriculture, cement and waste, would still result in rising temperatures, albeit at a slower rate of warming. If we reach net zero carbon dioxide emissions across all sectors, and stabilise or reduce emissions of short lived greenhouse gases such as methane, then at that point, our best current understanding is that warming would cease.</p><p> </p><p>There is a strong scientific consensus that climate change is impacting on biodiversity, including contributing to species extinction, and that tackling global warming would have significant benefits for the natural world. Those impacts are predicted to grow substantially without action to limit future warming.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 17/02/2021 15:22:40 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1285325

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2021
	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	Weddings: Coronavirus
	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 has been made of the effect the number of guests allowed to attend weddings when the sector reopens will have on the sector's financial viability.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea East
	tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
	uin	151772
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2021 answer text <p>I meet regularly with the industry-led Weddings Taskforce to understand the impact of COVID-19 on wedding businesses and jobs in the sector.</p><p> </p><p>As my Rt Hon friend the Prime Minister has said, we intend to publish our plan for taking the country out of lockdown in the last week of February.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 17/02/2021 15:31:45 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

1283708

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2021
	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	Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to provide funding to organisations which were unsuccessful in their application to the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Benjamin
	uin	HL12926
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2021 answer text <p>My Rt hon Friend the Prime Minister’s ten point plan for a green industrial revolution, announced in November 2020, includes a commitment for further funding for the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme in the 2021/22 financial year. Further information will be announced in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 17/02/2021 15:00:33 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	4167 label Biography information for Baroness Benjamin

1285094

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2021
	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	Renewable Energy
	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 effect of Ofgem’s proposed reforms to network charging on renewable energy development (a) in Scotland and (b) across the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	151765
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2021 answer text <p>Network charging is a matter for Ofgem as the independent regulator. Ofgem is leading two major charging reforms: the Targeted Charging Review (TCR), where final decisions were announced in December 2019; and the Access and Forward Looking Charges Significant Code Review (Access SCR), which is ongoing. Collectively, this programme of work seeks to ensure that regulatory and market arrangements reflect and enable the energy system transition, as we move towards net zero emissions, and that consumers benefit from the changes.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem’s TCR reforms seek to ensure all parties connected to the electricity network make a fair contribution to its fixed costs, and it has published an analysis of the expected impacts at: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ofgem.gov.uk%2Felectricity%2Ftransmission-networks%2Fcharging%2Ftargeted-charging-review-significant-code-review&amp;data=04%7C01%7CIan.Lomas%40beis.gov.uk%7Cb4ec11525806419be33008d8cdd78936%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637485672880983177%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=twMoQqQAEIZ6vZqPyYWuw4dlSCg6fi3Q%2B1BfSNljVpc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/electricity/transmission-networks/charging/targeted-charging-review-significant-code-review</a> . This analysis indicates that the reforms could affect the investment decisions of some renewable energy projects across Scotland and GB more widely, but also suggests that overall the combined impact of the TCR changes will reduce carbon emissions compared with no reforms.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem’s Access SCR is seeking to ensure the electricity network is used efficiently and flexibly, allowing consumers to benefit from new technologies and services. Ofgem is currently developing proposals, and intends to consult on these later this year. It will publish an impact assessment alongside that consultation.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan grouped question UIN 151766 question first answered 17/02/2021 14:44:58 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1285095

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2021
	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	Renewable Energy
	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 effect of the reforms in Ofgem’s Targeted Charging Review on renewable energy development (a) in Scotland and (b) across the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	151766
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2021 answer text <p>Network charging is a matter for Ofgem as the independent regulator. Ofgem is leading two major charging reforms: the Targeted Charging Review (TCR), where final decisions were announced in December 2019; and the Access and Forward Looking Charges Significant Code Review (Access SCR), which is ongoing. Collectively, this programme of work seeks to ensure that regulatory and market arrangements reflect and enable the energy system transition, as we move towards net zero emissions, and that consumers benefit from the changes.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem’s TCR reforms seek to ensure all parties connected to the electricity network make a fair contribution to its fixed costs, and it has published an analysis of the expected impacts at: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ofgem.gov.uk%2Felectricity%2Ftransmission-networks%2Fcharging%2Ftargeted-charging-review-significant-code-review&amp;data=04%7C01%7CIan.Lomas%40beis.gov.uk%7Cb4ec11525806419be33008d8cdd78936%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637485672880983177%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=twMoQqQAEIZ6vZqPyYWuw4dlSCg6fi3Q%2B1BfSNljVpc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/electricity/transmission-networks/charging/targeted-charging-review-significant-code-review</a> . This analysis indicates that the reforms could affect the investment decisions of some renewable energy projects across Scotland and GB more widely, but also suggests that overall the combined impact of the TCR changes will reduce carbon emissions compared with no reforms.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem’s Access SCR is seeking to ensure the electricity network is used efficiently and flexibly, allowing consumers to benefit from new technologies and services. Ofgem is currently developing proposals, and intends to consult on these later this year. It will publish an impact assessment alongside that consultation.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan grouped question UIN 151765 question first answered 17/02/2021 14:44:58 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown