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1002092

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
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	Fracking: Greater London
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 received applications to undertake fracking in (a) Ealing, Southall constituency, (b) Ealing local authority area and (c) Greater London.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	188080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>Before an operator can apply for planning permission from a local authority for any proposed oil or gas development, they need to apply for a Petroleum Exploration and Development Licence (PEDL) from the Oil and Gas Authority. There are no current PEDLs within the Greater London area.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, under Section 50 of the Infrastructure Act 2015, the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy must grant Hydraulic Fracturing Consent (HFC) before hydraulic fracturing can take place in the UK. The Department has not received any HFC applications relating to shale gas exploration in a) Ealing Southall constituency, b) Ealing local authority area or c) Greater London.</p><p> </p><p>The British Geological Survey has identified the main areas of shale prosperity in the UK, none of which lie underneath the Greater London area.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 19/11/2018 15:12:30 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

944080

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
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	Accountancy
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 representations he has received from the Big Four accountancy firms on their potential break-up.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	165526
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has regular meetings with representatives from major professional services firms in the UK industry, including accounting firms.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 26/07/2018 11:59:55 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

889886

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
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	Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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 change there was in the level of UK emissions in March 2018 compared with March in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	136938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not estimate greenhouse gas emission changes on a monthly basis. Our latest annual emissions estimates, published in March, show estimates of total UK greenhouse gas emissions for years 1990-2017. From 2012-2017 these were as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017 (p)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK GHG emissions (MtCO2e)</p></td><td><p>568</p></td><td><p>552</p></td><td><p>511</p></td><td><p>492</p></td><td><p>468</p></td><td><p>456</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note:</p><p>Final 2017 emissions will be published in February 2019</p><p>Provisional 2018 emissions will be published in March 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Source: Provisional UK greenhouse gas emissions national statistics 2017</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/provisional-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-national-statistics-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/provisional-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-national-statistics-2017</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/05/2018 09:26:26 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

887908

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
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	Electricity Generation: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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 records his Department made of emission changes in UK energy generation in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	136903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not estimate emission changes on a monthly basis. Provisional carbon dioxide emissions estimates, published in March, show quarterly estimates of emissions from energy supply for 2017 as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2017 quarter:</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Q1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Q2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Q3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Q4</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Carbon dioxide emissions from energy supply (Mt)</p></td><td><p>110.6</p></td><td><p>107.6</p></td><td><p>106.2</p></td><td><p>105.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Provisional UK greenhouse gas emissions national statistics 2017</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/provisional-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-national-statistics-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/provisional-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-national-statistics-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/05/2018 13:57:48 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

887911

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
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	Biofuels: Carbon Emissions
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 his Department is taking to measure the carbon dioxide emissions of biomass energy generation plants.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	136905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not estimate emission changes on a differential basis between technologies. The latest provisional carbon dioxide emissions estimates were published in March 2017. “<em>Provisional UK greenhouse gas emissions national statistics 2017</em>” <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/provisional-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-national-statistics-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/provisional-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-national-statistics-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>However, the UK has among the most stringent biomass sustainability provisions in Europe. Generators only receive subsidies for the electricity output which complies with our sustainability criteria which ensure biomass reduces carbon emissions (including a requirement to demonstrate a minimum 60% lifecycle greenhouse gas saving) and is sourced sustainably.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/05/2018 13:58:18 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

843984

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
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	Coal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for BEIS, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential role for (a) carbon capture, utilisation and storage and (b) other cleaner coal technologies in facilitating the end of unabated coal power.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	128356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>We are leading the world by ending unabated coal generation in Great Britain by 2025 and the Department set out how we intend to put the 2025 closure into effect and the reasoning behind the preferred option. This is available on the website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/coal-generation-in-great-britain-the-pathway-to-a-low-carbon-future" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/coal-generation-in-great-britain-the-pathway-to-a-low-carbon-future</a>.</p><p>With regard to the potential role for carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS), Government has been clear that new CCUS coal plants could have a role to play, stipulating in 2010 that all new coal power stations must be fitted with carbon capture and storage technology. No such assessment has been made against other cleaner coal technologies.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/02/2018 17:08:43 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

843985

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
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, Usage and Storage: Finance
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 funding has been disbursed from the public purse on investment into research and development of the use of carbon capture, utilisation and storage to meet the UK's energy needs in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	128101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>We do not currently have an annual breakdown across the different funders of CCS R&amp;D spend. As part of the Government’s CCS Commercialisation Programme, a £125 million R&amp;D programme (2011-15) was established with investment from central Government, the Research Councils, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Centre (EPSRC) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Innovate UK and the Energy Technologies Institute. As the Clean Growth Strategy set out, a further £162 million on innovation for Business and Industry will be invested over the current Spending Review period, of which BEIS has allocated £100 million for Industry and CCUS Innovation from the £505 million BEIS Energy Innovation Programme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/02/2018 17:09:28 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

715211

registered interest
date	29/03/2017
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	Coal Fired Power Stations: Carbon Emissions
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 potential reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of replacing all coal plants which are over 25-years old with modern super-critical coal plants.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	69671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>The Government has made no assessment of the potential impact of super-critical coal plants on carbon dioxide emissions.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 24/04/2017 08:43:22 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

676075

registered interest
date	20/01/2017
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	Developing Countries: 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, what plans he has to provide support for the use of carbon capture technology in the developing world additional to the £60 million committed to the International Climate Fund in 2012.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	61008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2017 answer text <p>The CCS Capacity Building Programme to which the Government committed £60 million from the International Climate Fund in 2012 is a multi-year programme currently underway, providing support for the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in emerging economies, through developing the technical and institutional knowledge required for CCS deployment.</p><p>In addition, the UK is a member of Mission Innovation, an international initiative which aims to reinvigorate and accelerate global clean energy innovation with the objective to make clean energy widely affordable. Under Mission Innovation, the UK is participating in the Carbon Capture Innovation Challenge, which includes emerging economies with an interest in CCS technology. <sup>[</sup><sup>1]</sup></p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="http://mission-innovation.net/our-work/innovation-challenges/carbon-capture-challenge/" target="_blank">http://mission-innovation.net/our-work/innovation-challenges/carbon-capture-challenge/</a></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 30/01/2017 12:10:47 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

657955

registered interest
date	13/12/2016
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	Developing Countries: 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 November 2016 remarks of Dr Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, on the role of faster deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in forming an integral part of a strengthened global climate response, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of delivering aid to support the deployment of CCS in developing countries.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	57461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>In 2012, the Government committed £60 million from its International Climate Fund (ICF), which forms part of the aid budget, to support the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in emerging economies.</p><p>This International CCS Capacity Building Programme continues to work with, and in, emerging economies to develop the technical and institutional knowledge necessary to enable the deployment of CCS technologies.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 21/12/2016 10:36:50 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma