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795698

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
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: Scotland
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 his Department plans to announce voluntary Contracts for Difference auctions for on shore wind in Scotland; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	116052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>Onshore wind is an established (Group 1) technology for the purposes of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme. No decisions have been taken on running an allocation round for these technologies but if one was run, onshore wind projects in Scotland would be eligible to apply.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is seeking state aid approval to classify remote island wind as a separate technology in Group 2 of the CfD scheme. This could include some onshore wind projects proposed for the remote islands of Scotland, including in Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles. The Clean Growth Strategy announced that we would provide up to £557m in total of annual funding for Group 2 technologies.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 01/12/2017 13:30:38 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

795699

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
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 Capture and Storage: Scotland
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 his Department has made of the steps needed to develop a carbon capture and storage cluster in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	116053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s Clean Growth Strategy, published on 12 October 2017, commits Government to working with ongoing initiatives in Teesside, Merseyside, South Wales and Grangemouth to test the potential for development of carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) industrial decarbonisation clusters.</p><p> </p><p>The Department met with Scottish Government, The Crown Estate Scotland, Pale Blue Dot Energy Ltd, Scottish Carbon Capture &amp; Storage and Summit Power on 15 November 2017 to discuss CCUS in Scotland and these discussions continue.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 05/12/2017 11:24:02 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

795703

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
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 Capture and Storage
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 contract awarded in February 2017 to Pale Blue Dot to review business models for carbon dioxide transport and storage, whether this work has been completed.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	116057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department commissioned Pale Blue Dot Energy Ltd to undertake a study ‘CO<sub>2</sub> transport and storage: Review of business models (Phase 1)’. This work has now been completed and the report will be published on gov.uk in January 2018.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 05/12/2017 16:16:12 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

795713

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
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	Nuclear Power: Employment
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 employed in the nuclear industry in each year since 2010; and what forecast he has made of the number of people employed in that industry in each year to 2025.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	116067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>The Nuclear Skills Strategy Group conducts, as part of its activities, a labour market intelligence gathering exercise across the sector to produce an annual Nuclear Workforce Assessment (NWA), which identifies the sector’s forward demand requirements. However, the first NWA report was published in 2014, with a subsequent iteration released in 2015, to improve the estimates for job figures across the industry, and as such we are not able to provide an accurate estimation before this date. The estimate for total demand across the nuclear industry (in Full Time Equivalents) for 2014 and 2015 is 70,000 and 77,000 respectively.</p><p> </p><p>The latest NWA published in July 2017 estimates the total demand each year to 2025 in FTEs as follows: <strong>2016 – </strong>84,000,<strong> 2017</strong> – 87,000; <strong>2018</strong> – 89,000; <strong>2019</strong> – 90,000; <strong>2020</strong> – 96,000; <strong>2021</strong> – 100,000; <strong>2022</strong> – 100,000; <strong>2023</strong> – 97,000; <strong>2024</strong> – 94,000; <strong>2025</strong> – 90,000.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 04/12/2017 16:36:38 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

795714

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
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 Finance Task Force
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 funding his Department has allocated to the Green Finance Taskforce in each of the next three years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	116068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>The Green Finance Taskforce is a voluntary group of senior leaders from the finance sector who will deliver recommendations to help Government accelerate the growth of green finance, deliver the investment required to meet our domestic carbon reduction targets and consolidate our leadership in financing international clean investment.</p><p> </p><p>No funding is allocated to the Taskforce or its Secretariat.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 01/12/2017 10:45:57 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

795716

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
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: 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 steps the Government is taking to upgrade fuel poor homes to Band C or above.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	116070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The Energy Company Obligation (ECO) requires energy companies to fund household energy efficiency improvements each year. 70% of ECO is currently focussed on improving the energy efficiency of low income and vulnerable households and we intend to consult on moving that to 100% for the next Obligation period. Combined with energy rebates under the Warm Home Discount scheme, this is at least £770m of support to low income and vulnerable households in 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>In the Clean Growth Strategy, the Government committed to extend support for home energy efficiency out to 2028 at least as the current levels of ECO funding (£640m per annum), and review the best form of support beyond 2022 recognising the need to both save carbon and meet the Government’s commitment to upgrade all fuel poor homes to EPC Band C by 2030.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, Government has legislated from April 2018 that all landlords of the worst performing privately rented properties must meet a minimum standard of Energy Performance Certificate Band E, before they can be let. In the longer term, Government has committed to looking at raising energy performance standards across the private rented sector, with a view for as many properties to reach Energy Performance Certificate Band C by 2030.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 05/12/2017 11:06:59 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry previous answer version 26538 answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

795719

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
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: 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 progress his Department is making on increasing the number of homes to be classified as EPC Band C by 2035.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	116073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>The Clean Growth Strategy, published recently, sets out Government’s aspiration that as many homes as possible will be upgraded to an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) band C by 2035 where practical, cost-effective and affordable. In the Clean Growth Strategy, we set out a number of policies and proposals that we will progress to meet this aspiration. For example, we:</p><p> </p><ol><li>Are supporting around £3.6 billion of investment to upgrade around a million homes through the Energy Company Obligation (ECO), and will extend support for home energy efficiency improvements until 2028 at the current level of ECO funding</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="2"><li>Will develop a long term trajectory to improve the energy performance standards of privately rented homes, with the aim of upgrading as many as possible to EPC Band C by 2030 where practical, cost-effective and affordable</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="3"><li>Will consult on how social housing can meet similar standards over this period</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="4"><li>Intend to consult on strengthening energy performance standards for new and existing homes under Building Regulations, including futureproofing new homes for low carbon heating systems, following the outcome of the independent review of Building Regulations and fire safety, and subject to its conclusions.</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="5"><li>Are seeking evidence on building a market for energy efficiency, including additional measures to improve energy performance of owner occupied homes through a Call for Evidence published alongside the Clean Growth Strategy.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 04/12/2017 15:22:07 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry previous answer version 26539 answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

795747

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
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, what assessment his Department has made of the industrial benefits of solar power.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
uin	116097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>Solar power is a UK success story, with rapid deployment over the last 7 years. Latest figures indicate that we now have over 12.5GW of solar capacity installed in the UK, enough to power over 2.7 million homes and exceeding our historic projections.</p><p> </p><p>Costs for solar installations have fallen rapidly during this period, allowing both domestic and industrial consumers to benefit from increasingly cheap and clean electricity. We expect subsidy-free solar to be an increasingly attractive option, with the first subsidy-free UK solar farm recently deploying. Some of the UK’s largest solar developers have said that they will be installing and connecting subsidy-free sites over the next 12 months.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 01/12/2017 13:34:50 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

795748

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
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	Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries
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 the Answer of 8 September 2017 to Question 7012, on iron and steel, when he plans to publish his Department's paper, Future Capabilities of the UK Steel Sector.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	116098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>The report on the Future Capabilities of the UK Steel Sector is being finalised, following consultation with the UK steel industry. The Department aims to publish the findings once the report has been completed.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 01/12/2017 10:43:40 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

795750

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
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	Industry
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 oral contribution of 27 November 2017, Official Report, column 45, what specific financial incentives will be available to encourage suppliers to relocate to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	116099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>The new supply chain programme is to be piloted in 2018 in the automotive sector and will provide training and streamline business processes, so that UK suppliers can match the best in Europe and secure a greater share of the expenditure of UK based vehicle makers. This initiative will help support the industry’s ambition to increase UK content in the supply chain from 44% to 50% by 2022. More detail on this will be announced shortly.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 04/12/2017 11:47:27 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry previous answer version 26535 answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders