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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

1240476

registered interest
date	05/10/2020
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	Mineworkers' Pension 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 much the Government has received from its share of the surplus from the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme since the surplus-sharing arrangement was agreed.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	99079
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2020 answer text <p>Since the agreement was reached in 1994, the Government has received £3,<del class="ministerial">4</del><ins class="ministerial">1</ins>11.8m as its share of surpluses. This is in return for the provision of the guarantee that ensures pensions are paid. The guarantee has enabled an investment strategy that has resulted in scheme members receiving payments 33% higher than they would have been if they received only their actual earned pension up to privatisation.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 08/10/2020 16:56:38 question first ministerially corrected 15/04/2021 16:22:57 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng previous answer version 52992 answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1203724

registered interest
date	15/06/2020
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	Tidal Power: Swansea Bay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to his Answer of 9 June 2020 to Question 51817 on Tidal Power: Swansea Bay, what range of hurdle rates, comparable to those more established renewable energy technologies, such as solar PV, onshore wind and large hydropower, were used for the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon value for money assessment.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool North and Cleveleys
tabling member printed	Paul Maynard
uin	59410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2020 answer text <p>The hurdle rates applied across the portfolio of tidal lagoons in the Department’s value for money assessment[1] are shown in Table 1. The hurdle rates for other low carbon technologies estimated at the time of the value for money assessment are shown in Table 2.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Range of hurdle rates applied to proposed programme of tidal lagoons<strong>[2]</strong></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Hurdle Rate Scenario</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Hurdle rate </strong>(real terms, pre-tax)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Low</p></td><td><p>6.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central</p></td><td><p>8.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>High</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">9.2%</del><ins class="ministerial">9.0%</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Table 2: Selected hurdle rates for other low carbon technologies </strong>(up to date at time the assessment was undertaken)[3]</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Technology</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Hurdle rate </strong>(real terms, pre-tax)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Onshore wind</p></td><td><p>6.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Offshore wind</p></td><td><p>8.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Solar PV (&gt;5MW)</p></td><td><p>6.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nuclear</p></td><td><p>8.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gas with CCUS (first of a kind)</p></td><td><p>11.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hydro (&gt;5MW)</p></td><td><p>6.9%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>[1] Available at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/swansea-bay-tidal-lagoon-value-for-money-assessment</em></p><p><em>[2] Source: BEIS commercial advisory</em></p><p><em>[3] Source: BEIS Electricity Generation Costs Report (2016), available at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-electricity-generation-costs-november-2016</em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 23/06/2020 10:20:49 question first ministerially corrected 26/06/2020 13:35:17 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng previous answer version 31135 answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard