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578777

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2016
	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: 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, what steps he plans to take to improve the performance of the feed-in tariff scheme for solar power; and what the timetable for such improvements is.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	45734
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2016 answer text <p>Solar has been deployed rapidly in recent years from low levels with almost 11 GW of capacity now installed.</p><p>Changes to the Feed-in Tariff scheme were introduced in 2016 to manage costs and ensure value for money. While it is appropriate to allow for a period of stability following these changes, we continue to keep the performance of the scheme under review.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 19/09/2016 15:46:24 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

582626

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2016
	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: Renewable Heat Incentive 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 retain solar thermal under the Renewable Heat Incentive for (a) domestic and smaller commercial heating applications and (b) new applications including space heating and community heating.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	46250
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2016 answer text <p>In March the Department for Energy and Climate Change published a consultation “The Renewable Heat Incentive: A reformed and refocused scheme”, including proposals relating to solar thermal.</p><p>The Government is currently considering responses to the consultation and will announce its final proposals in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/09/2016 13:35:20 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

596196

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	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, for what reason his Department has not implemented the Department of Energy and Climate Change's commitment to a biannual budget reconciliation process for the new feed-in tariff scheme, set out in its review of that scheme in December 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	47470
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government response to the 2015 review of the scheme set out that a budget reconciliation process could be biannual, or more or less frequent, depending on deployment. As well as our current consultation on support for anaerobic digestion and micro-combined heat and power under the scheme, we are reviewing the deployment that has taken place since the revised scheme was re-launched in February of this year and will make a statement in due course.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 12/10/2016 15:51:25 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

596200

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	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, if he will make it his Department's policy to implement the Department of Energy and Climate Change's commitment to feed-in tariff deployment cap top-ups, set out in its review of the feed-in tariffs scheme, published in December 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	47469
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government response to the 2015 review of the scheme set out that a budget reconciliation process could be biannual, or more or less frequent, depending on deployment. As well as our current consultation on support for anaerobic digestion and micro-combined heat and power under the scheme, we are reviewing the deployment that has taken place since the revised scheme was re-launched in February of this year and will make a statement in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 12/10/2016 15:51:53 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

758341

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2017
	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 Investment Bank
	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 his policy is on circumstances in which the special share in the Green Investment Bank (GIB) held by the Green Purposes Company Ltd can be used to approve or reject changes to GIB's green purposes as set out in the objects of its Articles of Association.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	8995
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>Following the sale of the Green Investment Bank (GIB), should the company wish to amend, remove or alter the green objective within the objects of its Articles of Association, it must seek written approval from the Green Purposes Company Limited (GPC), which holds a special share in GIB (now called the Green Investment Group (GIG)).</p><p> </p><p>The five trustees of GPC, who are independent of Government and the GIG, will form a judgement on the proposed amendment, and will either approve or reject the change to ensure that the green mission of the GIG is not weakened.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/09/2017 13:46:12 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

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

797356

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2017
	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, how many Local Enterprise Partnerships' local energy strategies funded by his Department have evaluated the potential for solar power in their areas.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	116319
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>BEIS has offered funding to help all 38 Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) in England develop energy strategies. A first phase of funding was offered to thirteen LEPs in March 2017, and funding was offered to the remaining 25 LEPs in September 2017.</p><p>BEIS is enabling local areas to develop energy strategies, linked with the forthcoming Local Industrial Strategies, to reflect the needs, opportunities and barriers within the local area. Some LEP areas have chosen to work together on a joint strategy. Strategies are expected to consider the full range of energy opportunities and challenges in the local area, including the potential for renewable heat and power generation, demand side management and transport infrastructure.</p><p>No energy strategies have been completed yet. The first phase energy strategies are expected by the end of March 2018, and the second phase are expected in summer 2018.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 04/12/2017 14:54:07 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

797357

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2017
	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 his Department's policy is on supporting solar power.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	116320
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>As outlined in the Clean Growth Strategy, the costs of low carbon technologies have fallen significantly since 2010 through a series of innovations and growth in deployment, with solar photovoltaics (PV) modules now almost 80 per cent cheaper than they were, meaning we are now beginning to see solar deploying in the UK without government support.</p><p>Solar PV projects continue to benefit from support provided under various government schemes in the UK. Although the Renewables Obligation scheme closed to new solar PV applicants on 1st April 2016, the Feed-in-Tariff remains open to new solar PV projects.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 04/12/2017 16:35:47 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

802296

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2017
	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, how much solar energy has been deployed subsidy-free by (a) capacity and (b) project numbers since the closure of the Renewables Obligation in March 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	117983
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>We are aware of one solar farm, Clayhill Solar Farm located in Milton Keynes, which has been deployed subsidy free with an installed capacity of 10MW. We are unaware of any others that are currently operational at this time.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 11/12/2017 16:01:24 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

802300

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2017
	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, if he will set out the evidence base and analysis underpinning his Department's position that solar energy no longer requires public support and can be deployed without subsidy.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	117987
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>Solar energy continues to receive public support through the Renewables Obligation and the Feed-in-Tariffs.</p><p>However, government support has helped to reduce the cost of solar cells by 80% since 2008<sup>1</sup>, and there is at least one project that has deployed without subsidy (Clayhill Solar Farm, Milton Keynes<sup>2</sup>).</p><ol><li><em> Bloomberg New Energy Finance (2016) Summit Keynote Presentation <a href="http://www.bbhub.io/bnef/sites/4/2016/04/BNEF-Summit-Keynote-2016.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.bbhub.io/bnef/sites/4/2016/04/BNEF-Summit-Keynote-2016.pdf</a></em></li><li><em> The Clean Growth Strategy (Page 98), <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/651916/BEIS_The_Clean_Growth_online_12.10.17.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/651916/BEIS_The_Clean_Growth_online_12.10.17.pdf</a></em></li></ol> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 11/12/2017 16:13:11 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park