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1126010

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date	13/05/2019
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: Meters
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 merits of conducting a new cost-benefit analysis of the smart meter roll-out over the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	253636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to publishing a new Cost Benefit Analysis for the Smart Meter Implementation Programme this year.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 16/05/2019 13:38:43 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1126180

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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	Solar 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, whether his Department has been monitoring the deployment of new (a) rooftop solar power since 1 April 2019, (b) ground mounted solar power less than or equal to 5MW since 1 April 2016 and (c) ground mounted solar power less than 5MW since 1 April 2015.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	253649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>Deployment of installations is monitored (a) for rooftop solar since 1 April 2019, through the MCS installation database (MID), (b) for ground mounted solar power less than or equal to 5MW since 1 April 2016, through the central FIT register (CFR), and (c) for ground mounted solar power less than 5MW since 1 April 2015, through the CFR and a register of installations accredited through the renewables obligation (RO).</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 16/05/2019 13:38:50 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1126230

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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, how many onshore wind turbine applications have been referred to and (b) approved by his Department in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	253665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>The Energy Act 2016 transferred responsibility for deciding planning applications for onshore wind schemes over 50MW to individual local planning authorities. Prior to that the responsibility had been with the Secretary of State for Energy.</p><p> </p><p>Section 77 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 enables my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government to call in certain planning applications for onshore wind farms, for his own consideration.</p><p> </p><p>A breakdown by year of all current and approved applications, including referrals, can be accessed on the REPD, which can be viewed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-energy-planning-database-monthly-extract" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-energy-planning-database-monthly-extract</a>.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 16/05/2019 13:38:57 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1126232

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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, how many onshore wind turbine applications have been approved in each region since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	253666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>Every quarter, BEIS publishes the Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), which lists applications for renewable energy projects as they through progress through planning. The latest version was published on 16 April 2019.</p><p> </p><p>A breakdown by year and region can be accessed on the REPD, which can be viewed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-energy-planning-database-monthly-extract" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-energy-planning-database-monthly-extract</a>.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 16/05/2019 13:39:03 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1126239

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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: Feed-in Tariffs
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 closure of the feed-in tariff scheme to new applicants, what proportion of Levy Control Framework funding across the lifetime of that scheme will be allocated to (a) schools, (b) community energy groups, (c) individual households, (d) business undertaking self-supply and (e) commercial solar developers.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	253667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>Estimates of funding and spend for the Feed-in Tariffs scheme under the Levy Control Framework are not available broken down by type of beneficiary.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 16/05/2019 13:39:09 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis