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date	23/09/2020
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: Self-sufficiency
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 he is taking to ensure UK energy self sufficiency.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	John Redwood
uin	94319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to making sure consumers have secure, affordable and increasingly clean energy. Maintaining a diverse energy market is essential as we move to end our reliance on fossil fuels as part of our Net Zero ambition.</p><p> </p><p>Great Britain’s (GB) gas market is one of the most liquid and developed markets in the world and provides security through diversity of supply. GB’s gas sources include indigenous production, six pipelines with Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands and three Liquefied Natural Gas terminals. In addition, the United Kingdom has a number of gas storage facilities, which act as a source of system flexibility when responding to short-run changes in supply and demand.</p><p> </p><p>As an increasing proportion of electricity is generated from inflexible and intermittent low-carbon sources, diversity of electricity supply will continue to be critical to providing the necessary flexibility and system reliability. Alongside domestic generation, interconnection with other countries will support delivery of lower costs for consumers, continued security of supply and better-integrated low carbon generation.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 01/10/2020 09:08:23 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

1237231

registered interest
date	23/09/2020
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	Natural Gas: Europe
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 stets he is taking to avoid UK dependence on (a) continental European and (b) Russian gas.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	John Redwood
uin	94320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>The UK gas market is one of the most liquid and developed markets in the world, providing security through diversity of supply. In 2018-19 most of the gas supply to the UK came from domestic production (46 per cent) and imports from Norway (31 per cent).</p><p> </p><p>The UK benefits from mutual gas trade with its mainland European partners (Belgium and the Netherlands). In the 2018-19 gas year our Continental interconnectors supplied 2 per cent of the UK’s gas.</p><p> </p><p>There are no gas pipelines directly linking the UK with Russia. In 2018-19, 20 per cent of UK gas supply came from the international Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) market. Russian imports represented less than 4 percent of the total supply of gas to the UK and our LNG supply was sourced from 12 different countries.</p><p> </p><p>The UK’s gas market remains robust and the Government will continue to test national resilience to reflect the changing nature of gas supply chains and markets.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 01/10/2020 09:06:31 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

1237233

registered interest
date	23/09/2020
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	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
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 increase in electricity demand in order to charge electric cars by 2025.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	John Redwood
uin	94321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>There are a number of important factors that will affect the way in which electric vehicle charging demand could impact the electricity system. BEIS officials engage with National Grid over their production of the annual Future Energy Scenarios (FES), which looks ahead to show what the future of energy in Great Britain might look like. The latest FES shows that, under all scenarios by 2025, there will be sufficient generation to meet peak demand. It also shows benefits provided by smart charging of electric vehicles, for example during periods when electricity demand is low or where there is plentiful renewable electricity generation, which can reduce peak demand and overall system costs, as well as benefitting consumers.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 01/10/2020 09:04:44 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

1237234

registered interest
date	23/09/2020
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	Heating: 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 assessment he ha made of the rate of transfer from gas home heating to electric over the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	John Redwood
uin	94322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>Meeting our net-zero target will require virtually all heat in buildings to be decarbonised, and we believe widespread use of electric heating has the potential to contribute very deep reductions in carbon emissions.</p><p> </p><p>In 2017, 13% of heat was provided by electricity in comparison with 67% from natural gas. Electric heating on gas grid remains small scale. For example, of the c30k heat pumps installed in the UK in 2019, the majority has gone to new builds and off-gas-grid households. Over the next five years, we expect deployment to continue to focus on these sectors.</p><p> </p><p>There are several key consumer barriers to the widespread deployment of heat pumps and BEIS is working with industry to address these. As part of this, we have launched a £16.5m Electrification of Heat Demonstration Project, which seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of a large-scale transition to electrification of heat in Great Britain, by installing heat pumps in a representative range of homes.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is planning to publish a<sup> </sup>Heat and Buildings Strategy in due course, which will set out the immediate actions we will take for reducing emissions from buildings.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 01/10/2020 14:48:09 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood