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registered interest
date	29/04/2019
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: Environment Protection
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 estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of Government green energy projects in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	248710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>The costs of renewable energy schemes for electricity are funded through consumer energy bills, rather than from general taxation.</p><p> </p><p>The Renewable Heat Incentive is funded through general taxation:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Cost (£m)</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Committed Renewable Heat Incentive</p></td><td><p>366</p></td><td><p>530</p></td><td><p>713</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: </em>RHI budget caps, BEIS: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/795530/RHI_budget_cap_publication_data_to_end_of_February_2019.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/795530/RHI_budget_cap_publication_data_to_end_of_February_2019.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The Department has allocated general taxation for energy innovation spend for green energy projects, in the amounts of:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Cost (£m)</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18 (est)*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Energy Innovation spend for green energy projects</p></td><td><p>373</p></td><td><p>473</p></td><td><p>531</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source:</em> BEIS annual returns to the International Energy Association for UK energy innovation spend.</p><p>* Figures for financial year 2017/18 are estimates and figures for 2018/19 are not currently available.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 07/05/2019 16:05:02 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1111040

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
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: Capital Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much the Government has invested in green energy projects in each year since 2005.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	243509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>This information can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 23/04/2019 16:28:38 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1092757

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
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	Solar Power
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 the total amount of solar energy captured in the UK is for each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	235404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2019 answer text <p>Electricity and heat generated in the UK each year from solar technologies are presented below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Electricity generated</strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Solar thermal generation (MTOE)</strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Total solar energy consumption (MTOE)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>(GWh)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(MTOE)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>2,010</p></td><td><p>173</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p><strong>222</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p>4,054</p></td><td><p>349</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p><strong>399</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>7,533</p></td><td><p>648</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p><strong>699</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p>10,411</p></td><td><p>895</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p><strong>947</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>11,525</p></td><td><p>991</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p><strong>1,044</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/renewable-sources-of-energy-chapter-6-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/renewable-sources-of-energy-chapter-6-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes</a></p><p> </p><p>The data above excludes unsubsidised solar generation not currently reported to BEIS or Ofgem. This is estimated to be very small.</p><p>Data for electricity generation in 2018 will be published on Thursday March 28 at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/766384/ET_6.1.xls" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/766384/ET_6.1.xls</a></p><p> </p><p>Figures for solar thermal generation in 2018 will be published on Thursday July 25 at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/729372/DUKES_6.1-6.3.xls" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/729372/DUKES_6.1-6.3.xls</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/03/2019 17:33:34 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1060714

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
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	Solar Power
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 trends in the size of the UK solar industry since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	220938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation &amp; Skills (BIS) published a report: The Size and Performance of the UK Low Carbon, which contains data on trends in the size of the UK low carbon economy for 2010 to 2013, including the UK solar sector. This report can be viewed online at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/416240/bis-15-206-size-and-performance-of-uk-low-carbon-economy.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/416240/bis-15-206-size-and-performance-of-uk-low-carbon-economy.pdf</a>.</p><p>The Department commissioned the Office for National Statistics to collect and publish data on trends in the low carbon and renewable energy sector, which includes the UK solar sector, in the form of their Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Economy Survey (LCREE) covering 2014 to 2017. This can be found online at: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/bulletins/finalestimates/previousreleases" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/bulletins/finalestimates/previousreleases</a>.</p><p>Due to differences in methodology, drawing comparisons between data contained in the report published by BIS and data contained in the LCREE may produce misleading conclusions. Comparing estimates from 2014 with estimates from later years of the LCREE survey may also produce misleading conclusions due to changes in the sample methodology that have taken place since.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 18/02/2019 16:56:24 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1056888

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
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	Solar Power
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 steps his Department is taking to promote the use of solar energy.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	218330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>Solar PV is a UK success story, with rapid deployment over the last 8 years. Over 99% of the UK’s solar PV capacity has been deployed since May 2010.</p><p> </p><p>We are now consulting on new proposals for a Smart Export Guarantee to support future arrangements for small-scale low-carbon generators (including solar power generators) to receive payment for the electricity they export to the grid. The consultation closes on the 5<sup>th</sup> March 2019 and can be viewed here: <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fconsultations%2Fthe-future-for-small-scale-low-carbon-generation&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb9d4a9bf9fae43428e5408d68e0a799d%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C636852572966506043&amp;sdata=p3DPljSEf49GOW3CjfqDQl%2F3WkQflsvPXiaauMpM3TI%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/the-future-for-small-scale-low-carbon-generation</a>.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/02/2019 17:32:08 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1041772

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
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	Solar Power
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many solar-based projects were on the Renewal Energy Planning Database in each quarter of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	208941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>Solar projects recorded on the Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) in each quarter since 2014 are in the following table. Please note that the management of the REPD changed in October 2014 and the historical data for 2013 and 2014 Q1 is not available.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the new contract for administering the REPD at the start of Q4 2014, the data parameters were changed to increase the minimum installed capacity from 0.001MW to 1MW. Therefore, the data shown from Q4 2014 onwards includes only those schemes with an installed capacity 1MW or above until Q4 2018 when projects over 150kW started to be included.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 21/01/2019 18:06:15 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1019855

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
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: Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland
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 estimate his Department has made of the total amount of energy exchanged between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland under the Single Energy Market in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	198869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>This information is publicly available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends</a>.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 10/12/2018 17:08:53 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

802981

registered interest
date	08/12/2017
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	Automation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will commission a formal assessment of the potential effect of automation on regional economies over the next 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	118401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data analytics will change jobs and businesses across the country, and we want people to be able to capitalise on these opportunities. Following a review of AI led by Professor Dame Wendy Hall and Jérôme Pesenti,<em> Growing the AI Industry in the UK</em>, our Industrial Strategy will address the Grand Challenge of making the UK a global centre for AI and data innovation and embed the power of this technology across our economy.</p><p>Embedding AI across the UK will create thousands of good quality jobs and drive economic growth across the regions. A recent study found digital technologies created a net total of 80,000 new jobs annually across a population similar to the UK. By one estimate, AI could add £232bn to the UK economy by 2030.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/12/2017 14:15:50 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

434051

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether special purpose vehicles are currently used to deliver any government-supported passenger rail or infrastructure operations.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	18691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2015 answer text <p>A special purpose vehicle is a company formed for a specific purpose, which may be for the short or long-term and is not limited to projects. In this way all franchised passenger train service operators are special purpose vehicles which deliver government-supported passenger rail operations. Network Rail also use special purpose vehicles, for example Network Rail Infrastructure Finance (<a href="http://www.networkrail.co.uk/investor-relations/uk-government-guarantee/" target="_blank">www.networkrail.co.uk/investor-relations/uk-government-guarantee/</a>). There are a number of other examples across the industry, but we have no complete list of them.</p><br /> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 11/12/2015 11:27:13 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

416828

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Hitachi: Newton Aycliffe
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the new Hitachi Trains factory at Newton Aycliffe will be (a) officially opened and (b) working at full capacity.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	8716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The Hitachi Train manufacturing facility at Newton Aycliffe was officially opened by the Prime Minister on 3rd September 2015. The facility has already employed over 100 staff, increasing to 400 by Easter 2016.　 The facility is ramping up for a November 2015 start and will go into full production next year on IEP trains.　 Production of the Abellio ScotRail trains will also commence at the facility in line with plans to enter service from late 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/09/2015 16:22:51 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens