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1243367

registered interest
date	14/10/2020
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	Wind 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 he has made of the (a) grid infrastructure upgrades required to facilitate the planned deployment of 40GW of offshore wind by 2030 and (b) effect of Ofgem's interim decision on RIIO 2 on the required upgrades; and will he make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	103572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2020 answer text <p>In July, the Government launched the Offshore Transmission Network Review to assess the approach to delivering connections for offshore wind. As part of this review, National Grid ESO is consulting on their cost-benefit analysis of a more coordinated approach to offshore transmission and an initial assessment of technical considerations for a more integrated offshore network. The Review will consider these consultations and we will publish an update in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The next price control for onshore electricity transmission networks, RIIO 2, is a matter for Ofgem the independent regulator. Ofgem’s Draft Determinations were announced in July and have been open to consultation with stakeholders. The Final Determinations expected at the end of this year will set out Ofgem’s views on the upgrades proposed for the transmission network and whether, when and how these investments should be funded.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 19/10/2020 12:25:14 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1243437

registered interest
date	14/10/2020
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	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, when he plans to publish a response to the Committee on Climate Change report entitled, Reducing UK Emissions Progress Report to Parliament, published in June 2020.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	103573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government response to the Committee on Climate Change’s report Reducing UK Emissions Progress Report to Parliament was laid in Parliament on 15 October. A copy of the response can be found online at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/committee-on-climate-changes-2020-progress-report-government-response" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/committee-on-climate-changes-2020-progress-report-government-response</a>.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 19/10/2020 12:23:20 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1243477

registered interest
date	14/10/2020
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	Green Homes Grant Scheme
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 reasons people eligible for the Green Homes Grant scheme have not been able to receive their vouchers before the start of November 2020.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	103443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2020 answer text <p>Applications for Green Homes Grant scheme vouchers are subject to thorough checks, to help protect against malpractice. These checks may take some time to complete but are vital to ensuring value for money and consumer protection. The first vouchers will be approved and issued shortly.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 19/10/2020 12:17:21 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1243478

registered interest
date	14/10/2020
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	Green Homes Grant Scheme
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 plans his Department has to increase the number of local contractors participating in the Green Homes Grant scheme.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	103444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2020 answer text <p>The Green Homes Grant scheme will support tens of thousands of jobs, and we are working closely with industry to ensure there are enough installers to meet demand. More than 1,000 companies have signed up so far with more registering every day, including many businesses that operate nationally with substantial capacity to carry out work across the country.</p><p> </p><p>We have also made £6.9m available via the Green Homes Grant Skills Training competition to fund training to increase the number of installers available.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 19/10/2020 12:13:38 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1243479

registered interest
date	14/10/2020
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	Green Homes Grant Scheme
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 number of people eligible for the Green Homes Grant scheme who will be unable to use that scheme due to inadequate numbers of qualified installers in their area.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	103445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government is working closely with industry to ensure there are enough installers to meet demand. More than 1,000 companies are registered with TrustMark and are able to carry out measures under the Green Homes Grant Scheme, with more registering every day. We have changed the way the Simple Energy Advice website displays installers so that consumers can find increased numbers of registered tradespeople that can deliver work in their area.</p><p> </p><p>Officials are working actively with TrustMark scheme providers and certification bodies to support installers to get certified as quickly as possible. The Department also recently launched a £6.9m skills competition to provide training opportunities for the energy efficiency and low carbon heating supply chains to deliver works and scale up to meet additional consumer demand.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 19/10/2020 12:11:35 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1243480

registered interest
date	14/10/2020
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	Green Homes Grant Scheme
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 he plans to extend the deadline of the Green Homes Grant scheme after 31 March 2021.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	103446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2020 answer text <p>The time-limited nature of the scheme is determined by the nature of the funding. Any potential funding allocations for future years will be determined in the next Government spending review.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 19/10/2020 12:10:20 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1242847

registered interest
date	13/10/2020
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	Green Homes Grant Scheme
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 households have applied for grants under the Green Homes Grant scheme to date.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	102869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2020 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">As of 15:00 on 14 October 2020, the Green Homes Grant voucher scheme had received 17,218 grant applications.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">As of 16:00 on 20 October 2020, the Green Homes Grant voucher scheme had received 20,903 grant applications.</ins></p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 20/10/2020 14:41:29 question first ministerially corrected 02/11/2020 14:41:49 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng previous answer version 55540 answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1242850

registered interest
date	13/10/2020
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	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, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the incentives to improve the energy efficiency of (a) private rented accommodation and (b)(i) council-owned and (ii) housing association-owned socially rented accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	102864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2020 answer text <p>The latest tranches of Energy Company Obligation (ECO2 and ECO3) are currently being evaluated, with an evaluation report expected to be published in due course. We will also be reviewing in due course the effectiveness of our recently launched incentives of the Green Homes Grant and the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Demonstrator.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 20/10/2020 14:48:42 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1243022

registered interest
date	13/10/2020
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	Spirits: Renewable Fuels
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 of the £10 million Green Distilleries Competition funding has been allocated.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	102873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2020 answer text <p>The BEIS Energy Innovation Team recently launched the first phase of the Green Distilleries competition. The application window closed very recently, and applications are currently being assessed. This feasibility phase will award a total of £500,000 for engineering studies, with the most promising projects going on to receive further funding next year to develop their technologies as part of phase 2. The competition will help the distillery sector innovate for a Net Zero future and has received a large amount of interest from the industry.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 20/10/2020 14:52:10 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1242420

registered interest
date	12/10/2020
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	Broadband: Yorkshire and the Humber
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 with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to ensure that there is sufficient universal broadband network coverage to enable smart meters to function effectively and continuously; and when the Government plans for such network coverage to be made available throughout Yorkshire; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	101978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>Second generation smart meters use a dedicated national smart metering communications network, which uses a variety of technologies to deliver connectivity to premises. These include cellular mobile technology plus wireless mesh radio, and long-range radio technology.</p><p> </p><p>The Data Communications Company (DCC), which operates the national communications infrastructure for smart metering, is obligated under the conditions of its licence to provide communications coverage to at least 99.25% of premises across Great Britain by the end of 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The DCC is required by licence conditions to assess opportunities to increase the overall level of coverage beyond its contractual requirements where it is practicable and cost proportionate.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng grouped question UIN 101979 question first answered 15/10/2020 16:21:14 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight