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1656919

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Carbon Emissions: Local Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many grants are available across Government to help local authorities finance net zero projects.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	196582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>It is not possible to provide a figure for the total amount of net zero grant funding available to local authorities because this depends on the decisions local authorities make themselves about how they use the funding available to them. Through their core settlement, grant funding schemes, and UK growth funding, Government provides a wide range of funding to support local authorities to tackle net zero goals.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has established the UK Infrastructure Bank with an initial £12 billion of capital. One of the bank’s core objectives is to support regional and local economic growth. This includes a lending facility of £4 billion for local authorities at preferential rates.</p><p> </p><p>Individual Government grant funding schemes each have their own monitoring and evaluation processes.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 196585 196589 196592 196593 question first answered 11/09/2023 10:35:12 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1656920

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Local Government: Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she has made an assessment of the adequacy of existing net-zero grants that are available for local authorities to apply for; and whether she has received representations from local authorities that have been unsuccessful in the bidding process.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	196583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The net zero funding available to local authorities does not only come from net zero grants, but depends on the decisions local authorities make themselves about how they use the funding available to them, which includes their core settlement, grant funding schemes, UK growth funding, and loans at preferential rates from the UK Infrastructure Bank.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Local Net Zero Hubs, the Government is supporting local authorities to attract commercial investment.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 196584 question first answered 11/09/2023 16:13:12 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1656921

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Local Government: Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the application process for net-zero grants are accessible to local authorities with limited (a) resources and (b) capacity.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	196584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The net zero funding available to local authorities does not only come from net zero grants, but depends on the decisions local authorities make themselves about how they use the funding available to them, which includes their core settlement, grant funding schemes, UK growth funding, and loans at preferential rates from the UK Infrastructure Bank.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Local Net Zero Hubs, the Government is supporting local authorities to attract commercial investment.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 196583 question first answered 11/09/2023 16:13:12 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1656922

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Carbon Emissions: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps her Department is taking to monitor the effectiveness of grant schemes on net zero outcomes.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	196585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>It is not possible to provide a figure for the total amount of net zero grant funding available to local authorities because this depends on the decisions local authorities make themselves about how they use the funding available to them. Through their core settlement, grant funding schemes, and UK growth funding, Government provides a wide range of funding to support local authorities to tackle net zero goals.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has established the UK Infrastructure Bank with an initial £12 billion of capital. One of the bank’s core objectives is to support regional and local economic growth. This includes a lending facility of £4 billion for local authorities at preferential rates.</p><p> </p><p>Individual Government grant funding schemes each have their own monitoring and evaluation processes.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 196582 196589 196592 196593 question first answered 11/09/2023 10:35:12 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1656925

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Energy: Conservation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to increase the (a) resources, (b) capacity and (c) skills development for local authorities to (i) enforce and (ii) report on Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard levels.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	196588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>Between 2018 and 2023, the Government ran a series of compliance and enforcement pilots and competitions to support local authorities in enforcing the domestic private rented sector Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (MEES) regulations. 104 local authorities took part with £8.4m provided to help them carry out effective compliance assurance and enforcement of the MEES regulations in their area.</p><p> </p><p>The Government consulted in 2020 on proposals to improve the energy performance of privately rented homes. The consultation included proposals to encourage compliance with MEES Regulations and strengthen the enforcement regime. A summary of responses to this consultation will be published by the end of this year.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 11/09/2023 16:14:37 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1656926

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Carbon Emissions: Local Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the total value is of grants available to local authorities to deliver net-zero projects that are administered by her Department.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	196589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>It is not possible to provide a figure for the total amount of net zero grant funding available to local authorities because this depends on the decisions local authorities make themselves about how they use the funding available to them. Through their core settlement, grant funding schemes, and UK growth funding, Government provides a wide range of funding to support local authorities to tackle net zero goals.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has established the UK Infrastructure Bank with an initial £12 billion of capital. One of the bank’s core objectives is to support regional and local economic growth. This includes a lending facility of £4 billion for local authorities at preferential rates.</p><p> </p><p>Individual Government grant funding schemes each have their own monitoring and evaluation processes.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 196582 196585 196592 196593 question first answered 11/09/2023 10:35:12 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1656927

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Carbon Emissions: Local Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of developing a net-zero local government framework for local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	196590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s approach to working with local authorities on net zero is set out in the Net Zero Strategy and Net Zero Growth Plan. The Government’s engagement forum with local government, the Local Net Zero Forum, has considered a framework for Local Authority net zero roles and responsibilities but this was not determined to be the best way forward.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 11/09/2023 10:38:41 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1656928

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Carbon Emissions: Local Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what data her Department holds on carbon emission outputs by local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	196591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The UK local and regional greenhouse gas emissions national statistics, 2005 to 2021, set out emissions data at the local authority level.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 11/09/2023 10:37:37 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1656929

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Carbon Emissions: Local Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will list all (a) funding schemes and (b) initiatives available for local authorities to help support their transition to net zero.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	196592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>It is not possible to provide a figure for the total amount of net zero grant funding available to local authorities because this depends on the decisions local authorities make themselves about how they use the funding available to them. Through their core settlement, grant funding schemes, and UK growth funding, Government provides a wide range of funding to support local authorities to tackle net zero goals.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has established the UK Infrastructure Bank with an initial £12 billion of capital. One of the bank’s core objectives is to support regional and local economic growth. This includes a lending facility of £4 billion for local authorities at preferential rates.</p><p> </p><p>Individual Government grant funding schemes each have their own monitoring and evaluation processes.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 196582 196585 196589 196593 question first answered 11/09/2023 10:35:12 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1656930

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Carbon Emissions: Local Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps her Department is taking to monitor the effectiveness of funding provided to local authorities to help them achieve net-zero.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	196593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>It is not possible to provide a figure for the total amount of net zero grant funding available to local authorities because this depends on the decisions local authorities make themselves about how they use the funding available to them. Through their core settlement, grant funding schemes, and UK growth funding, Government provides a wide range of funding to support local authorities to tackle net zero goals.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has established the UK Infrastructure Bank with an initial £12 billion of capital. One of the bank’s core objectives is to support regional and local economic growth. This includes a lending facility of £4 billion for local authorities at preferential rates.</p><p> </p><p>Individual Government grant funding schemes each have their own monitoring and evaluation processes.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 196582 196585 196589 196592 question first answered 11/09/2023 10:35:12 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan