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1357086

	registered interest
	date	21/09/2021
	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	Oil: Shetland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	If he will make it his policy to withhold consent for the development of the Cambo oil field for production.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	903547
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2021 answer text <p>The development proposal for Cambo is being scrutinised in line with robust regulatory procedures and no decision has yet been taken.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 21/09/2021 11:45:18 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1256067

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2020
	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	Wind Power: Impact Assessments
	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 recent environmental impact assessments have been undertaken on the effect of wind power on the (a) land and b) sea environments.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	121162
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2020 answer text <p>Offshore and onshore wind developers are required to carry out an Environmental Impact Assessment as part of any planning application. The Environmental Impact Assessment affords protection to the environment by ensuring that the planning authority considers any significant effects as part of the decision-making process and that the local community are informed of any impacts.</p><p> </p><p>For onshore wind projects in England, the local authority is the primary decision maker for all sizes of schemes. We introduced planning tests in 2015 that ensure that local communities have the final say on onshore wind farm developments. This means that a local community can raise concerns based on the publicly available information in the Environmental Impact Assessment, and a development cannot be granted permission if these concerns have not been addressed. Copies of Environmental Impact Assessments are usually available on local authority websites.</p><p> </p><p>Planning applications for offshore wind projects in England and Wales above 100MW capacity are determined by my Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State through the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects regime. In respect of the Secretary of State’s decisions on applications for development consent made so far in 2020, Environmental Impact Assessments were carried out on the Thanet Extension Offshore Wind Farm and the Norfolk Vanguard Offshore Wind Farm, details of which are available on The Planning Inspectorate’s website - <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Finfrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cjulie.whiting%40beis.gov.uk%7C7b0e36e4611344bb510508d895335662%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637423395028759279%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=PwqOL7pjsroeYiywifpetV6g4F7f3Yn1emvKLU5WD5c%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>In addition, Defra has undertaken strategic assessments of the environmental impacts of offshore wind developments, including assessments of cabling impacts, floating wind technologies and underwater noise. Given the Government’s ambitions for offshore wind, Defra is working closely with other Government bodies, the Crown Estate, industry and wider stakeholders to prepare for and mitigate against the environmental impacts of growth in this sector. Included in this is the Offshore Wind Enabling Actions programme, a £4.3m action programme to be jointly run by Defra and BEIS to deliver upon its aims.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 04/12/2020 14:59:03 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1178735

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2020
	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	Renewable Energy: North of England
	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 encourage the expansion of the renewable energy industry in the north of England.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	15084
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>Through Government policies we have dramatically increased the deployment of renewable generation. Renewable electricity now makes up over a third of our generation and our renewable capacity has quadrupled since 2010. 24% of the UK’s renewable capacity is located in the North of England.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s manifesto set out an ambition to further expand offshore wind to reach 40GW of capacity by 2030, and we will continue to work with the offshore wind industry to deliver the ambition for 60% UK content in offshore wind farms, as agreed in the Offshore Wind Sector Deal. New wind farms being built off the North East coast, such as the Dogger Bank and Sophia projects, will provide a huge economic opportunity for the north east of England, delivering 5GW of new renewable energy; enough to power over 5 million homes. UK companies such as Tekmar, JDR Cables and Seajacks, all based in the North of England, are not only supplying UK renewable projects, but winning export contracts abroad.</p><p> </p><p>We are also helping to develop renewable heat network infrastructure across the North. For example, on 3 February, the Coal Authority announced the construction of the UK’s first heat network to take renewable heat from mine water in County Durham.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 27/02/2020 11:56:05 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1171455

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2020
	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	Solar Power: Staff
	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 people were employed in the UK solar industry in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017, (d) 2018 and (e) 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	4400
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2020 answer text <p>The ONS produces estimates of the size of the UK’s green economy from the Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Economy Survey. Estimates for employment in the UK solar industry from 2015-2018 are listed below. Estimates for 2019 are not yet available.</p><p> </p><p>Comparing estimates from the Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Economy Survey from 2014 with estimates from later years of the survey is not advised because of changes in the sample methodology in 2015. The survey sample size was reduced from around 40,000 in 2014 to around 14,000 in 2015.</p><p><strong>Employment (full time equivalent)</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Estimate</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Estimate</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Estimate</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Estimate</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Estimate</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Solar photovoltaic</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UK</strong></p></td><td><p>9,800</p></td><td><p>9,900</p></td><td><p>4,900</p></td><td><p>5,400</p></td><td><p>6,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>England</strong></p></td><td><p>8,800</p></td><td><p>9,300</p></td><td><p>4,400</p></td><td><p>5,000</p></td><td><p>5,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td><td><p>300</p></td><td><p>300</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Wales</strong></p></td><td><p>500</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Northern Ireland</strong></p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>200</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 22/01/2020 15:03:50 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1401689

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2022
	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	Housing: Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, to ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to help support energy efficiency measures in homes.
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
	uin	904941
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>The Government has published the Heat and Buildings Strategy, setting out plans to decarbonise homes in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>This includes £4 billion of new funding at the Spending review to start work.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 11/01/2022 13:24:39 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1401688

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2022
	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: Price Caps
	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 effect of the price cap increase on the level of demand for support from household customers with dual fuel energy.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	904939
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>Our Energy Price Cap remains in place, protecting millions of households from sudden price spikes. We are also supporting the most vulnerable and low-income households with the cost of fuel bills through initiatives such as the Warm Home Discount, Winter Fuel Payments and Cold Weather Payments</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng grouped question UIN 904942 question first answered 11/01/2022 13:23:53 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1185423

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2020
	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	Energy Company Obligation and Warm Home Discount 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, what estimate he has made of the number of energy customers that do not contribute to the (a) Energy Company Obligation and (b) Warm Homes Discount as a result of being with a smaller supplier.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	29934
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>The current threshold for participation in the Energy Company Obligation and Warm Home Discount is 200,000 domestic customer accounts and this is changing to 150,000 customer accounts from 1 April this year.</p><p> </p><p>In the final stage impact assessment for ECO3, published in October 2018, we estimated that suppliers over the 200,000 threshold covered 96% of the market and those over 150,000 covered 99%. While the number of energy suppliers in the market and their customer numbers fluctuate, we expect the current market coverage to be similar now.</p><p> </p><p>How energy suppliers pass on their costs depends on their individual pricing decisions.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 24/03/2020 15:56:29 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1227667

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2020
	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 Deal Scheme: Complaints
	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 the average response time is from the Green Deal Ombudsman on a complaint about Green Deal mis-selling once an acknowledgement has been received.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
	tabling member printed	Anne McLaughlin
	uin	78727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2020 answer text <p>Where mis-selling complaints have not been dealt with to the consumer’s satisfaction by the Green Deal Provider, they are routinely handled by the Financial Ombudsman Service. We do not hold data on response times for either the Green Deal Ombudsman or the Financial Ombudsman Service.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 07/09/2020 13:43:35 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4437 label Biography information for Anne McLaughlin

1173152

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2020
	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	Electricity
	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 she plans to provide further support for the development of flexible electricity markets.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
	tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
	uin	7574
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>Government is supporting the development of flexibility markets through the delivery of the actions in the Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan and continued innovation funding for flexibility market platforms.</p><p> </p><p>The Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan set out a number of actions to ensure that markets fairly reward flexibility for the value it provides to the system. As part of this plan, network operators are taking action to develop local flexibility markets and the Electricity System Operators work to reform the balancing services markets is opening up access to a wider range of flexible technologies. We are now considering the next phase of this work and will work closely with Ofgem and industry to develop this throughout 2020. ​​</p><p> </p><p>In 2019, we launched the “FleX” innovation competition, which will support the development and demonstration of innovative solutions to value and trade flexibility in the energy system. Details of winning projects will be formally announced in due course.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 30/01/2020 11:20:06 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

1200785

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2020
	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	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
	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 Ofgem has halted work on the electricity charging reform.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
	uin	55141
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>There are currently two Significant Code Reviews (SCRs) that are the focus of Ofgem’s work on electricity charging reform: the Targeted Charging Review (TCR) and the Access and Forward-Looking Charges Review (Access SCR). Ofgem indicated in its forward work programme update, which was published on 16th April 2020 and is available at <a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/ofgem-information-energy-licensees-coronavirus-covid-19-response" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/ofgem-information-energy-licensees-coronavirus-covid-19-response</a>, that work on both the TCR and Access SCR will continue to be progressed.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, National Grid Electricity System Operator has been leading a task force at Ofgem’s request to consider the future of balancing services charges. As part of its reprioritisation in April 2020 of the forward work programme, Ofgem has paused some activities including the Balancing Services Charges Task Force. This decision was taken to enable stakeholders and Ofgem to prioritise the response to coronavirus. The Task Force will resume work in July 2020.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 15/06/2020 16:55:45 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford