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1491330

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
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	Private Rented Housing: 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, when he plans to publish his conclusions from the public consultation on improving the energy performance of privately rented homes.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	41975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government is reflecting on the feedback received to ensure the policy is fair to both landlords and tenants. The Government will publish a response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 06/09/2022 14:12:16 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1491336

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
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	Renewable Energy: 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, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the upcoming Contract for Difference Auction Round 4 on energy bills.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	41992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to minimising energy costs for businesses and consumers.</p><p> </p><p>The precise bill impact of Allocation Round 4 (AR4) will be dependent on future wholesale electricity prices, which remain uncertain. Although difficult to predict with certainty, the Government expects AR4 to have a relatively small impact on household bills. AR4 will deliver capacity which is a critical part of the Government’s strategy to reduce system costs and will increase energy independence by contributing towards the transition to a low carbon electricity system.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 06/09/2022 14:12:44 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1491337

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
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	Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason it was not reported to Parliament that the quantified policies in the Net Zero Strategy are projected to deliver approximately 95 per cent of the emissions reductions needed to meet the sixth carbon budget.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	41976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2022 answer text <p>The Net Zero Strategy included a mix of quantified and unquantified policies. Depending on which accounting methodology would be adopted as the international standard at COP26, shortly after the Strategy’s publication, the quantified policies were projected to deliver either ~95% or, as under the now agreed standard, over 100% of the emissions reductions needed for the sixth carbon budget. It is also inherently difficult to quantify the emission reductions that a particular policy will generate over time.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 06/09/2022 14:13:19 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1491338

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
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	Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, in the context of the weight given by Mr Justice Holgate to the advice of the Climate Change Committee in the judgment on the case of Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, Good Law Project vs. Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy handed down on 18 July 2022, if he will follow the Committee's guidance in relation to delivering on the UK’s carbon budgets.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	41977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2022 answer text <p>Government Ministers always carefully consider the Climate Change Committee’s advice. The Climate Change Committee described the Net Zero Strategy as ‘an ambitious and comprehensive strategy that marks a significant step forward for UK climate policy’, and as ‘the world's most comprehensive plan to reach Net Zero’. It also stated that ‘It follows the transparent process for developing climate policy set out in the UK’s Climate Change Act’ and that ‘The Net Zero Strategy fulfils the requirement in the Act for the Government to present policies and proposals to meet the UK’s emissions targets’.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 06/09/2022 14:18:17 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1491397

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
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	Sanctions: Russia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has had recent discussions with representatives of the oil and gas industry on preventing third country purchasers from reselling UK oil and gas products to sanctioned Russian organisations as a means of enabling sanction evasion.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	42065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government has implemented multiple prohibitions on the export of energy-related goods and services to Russia, including on supply and delivery via third countries. The Government works routinely with both international partners and industry representatives to ensure sanctions are robustly enforced. The Government continues regular engagement with representatives from the oil and gas industry, including official level bilaterally and ministerially chaired monthly meetings of the Oil Taskforce, ensuring that industry is ready to comply with the ban on imports of all Russian oil and oil products by the end of 2022.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 06/09/2022 14:14:08 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1491613

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
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	Heat Pumps
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has conducted or commissioned research on potential options for improving the public interest and acceptance of heat pumps.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	42229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government has been conducting research through the £16 million Electrification of Heat Demonstration Project on approaches to improving public interest and acceptance of heat pumps, with results due to be published later this year.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 06/09/2022 14:21:13 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1491614

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
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	Heat Pumps
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 information his Department holds on the number of (a) engineers on the Gas Safe Register and (b) off-gas-grid installers were trained to install heat pumps in each year for which figures are available; and if his Department will make an assessment of whether there has been sufficient training uptake to deliver installation of 600,000 heat pumps per year by 2028.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	42230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2022 answer text <p>Heating engineers are not required to report to Government when they undertake heat pump training. Microgeneration Certification Scheme estimates of the number of trained heat pump installers in the UK are in line with Heat Pump Association estimates of the number of installers needed for current levels of deployment. As demand for heat pumps increases, the number of trained installers will need to increase further. Industry groups are confident there is enough training capacity to meet demand for heat pump upskilling as heat pump deployment increases to meet the target of 600,000 installations per year by 2028.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 06/09/2022 14:15:36 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1491700

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
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: Housing
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 recent steps his Department has taken to improve the energy performance of homes to EPC band C or above.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	42231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government is investing £6.6 billion over this parliament to improve the energy efficiency of homes, including:</p><p> </p><ul><li>£1.75 billion announced for Home Upgrade Grant and Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund as part of the Spending Review 2021.</li><li>Expanding the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme to £4 billion, improving an estimated 450,000 of the least energy efficient homes occupied by low income and vulnerable households in Great Britain.</li></ul><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government has launched a digitally led service <a href="https://www.gov.uk/improve-energy-efficiency" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/improve-energy-efficiency</a> launched in July to provide impartial, tailored advice to help people improve their homes.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 06/09/2022 14:15:02 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1490985

registered interest
date	20/07/2022
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	Carbon Emissions
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 judgement of the hon. Mr Justice Holgate in the case Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, Good Law Project vs. Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy handed down on 18 July 2022, for what reason the Energy Minister approved the Government’s Net Zero Strategy without the necessary information on how it would meet the carbon budgets as required under section 13 of the Climate Change Act 2008.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	40753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>Information on how the policies and proposals will meet the carbon budgets was provided when the publication of the Net Zero Strategy was approved. It was the consideration of Mr Justice Holgate that the policy-by-policy quantification carried out by officials ought to have been before Ministers, rather than the same information aggregated at the sector level. Ministers considered that the combination of the analysis provided and the additional detail summarised by Departmental officials gave sufficient confidence that the policies and proposals would enable the carbon budgets to be met. The Government is seeking permission from the Court of Appeal to appeal the judgment.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 05/09/2022 15:12:50 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1490986

registered interest
date	20/07/2022
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	Carbon Emissions
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 judgment of the hon. Mr Justice Holgate in the case Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, Good Law Project vs. Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy handed down on 18 July 2022, what steps he is taking to ensure that the revised report (a) closes the measured shortfall in emissions reductions needed to meet CB6 and (b) provides the necessary information explaining how policies will credibly deliver those emissions reductions.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	40754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>As was made clear in the court hearing, there is no shortfall in emissions reductions needed to meet the sixth carbon budget. Under the international standard accounting methodology adopted at COP26, shortly after the Strategy’s publication, the quantified policies were projected to deliver over 100% of the emissions reductions needed to meet the sixth carbon budget. The order accompanying the judgment states that the Government must lay a report before Parliament by no later than 31 March 2023. The Government is seeking permission from the Court of Appeal to appeal the judgment.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 40755 40756 question first answered 05/09/2022 15:14:32 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas