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1140376

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	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
	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 has taken to support the (a) use and (b) production of renewable (i) energy and (ii) infrastructure in each nation and region of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	279033
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>The Government has supported a number of measures and programmes to support the production and use of renewable energy and infrastructure. The Government has committed to making up to £557 million available for further Contracts for Difference auctions to bring forward large-scale renewable projects and introduced the Smart Export Guarantee in June, to ensure that generators are paid for excess energy they export back to the grid from 2020.</p><p> </p><p>On 7 March, the Government announced the Offshore Wind Sector Deal, which will build on the UK’s global leadership in offshore wind and support the delivery of up to 30GW of offshore wind by 2030 in Great Britain; enhancing growth in the regions while continuing to reduce costs. We are also investing over £3 billion to support low-carbon innovation in the UK up to 2021, to ensure that the UK continues to reap the benefits from the transition to a low carbon economy. Previous schemes for renewable electricity include the Renewable Obligation and the Feed-in Tariff Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>Energy policy is devolved matter in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>The Government continues to support the production and use of renewable heat with the current Great Britain Renewable Heat Incentive. There is a separate Northern Ireland Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.The GB Renewable Heat Incentive supports the installation of renewable heat equipment in every region of Great Britain. To the end of June 2019, the RHI had supported 70,642 domestic, and 19,455 non-domestic installations.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also launched the Heat Networks Investment project (HNIP) - a major Government project which will invest up to £320m of capital funding in heat network projects in England and Wales. HNIP funds are specifically offered as ‘gap funding’ through a combination of grants and loans and the scheme will be open for applications for a period of up to three years.</p><p> </p><p>Previous schemes for renewable heat include Clear Skies, the Low Carbon Building Programme, the Green Deal, and the Renewable Heat Premium Payment scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 02/08/2019 09:35:32 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1140377

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	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, how many applications were submitted to the Feed-In Tariff scheme in each of the last nine years in each region and nation of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	279034
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data on applications submitted to the Feed-in Tariff scheme.</p><p>Data on cumulative installations confirmed on the Central Feed-in Tariff Register by region and nation within Great Britain is published quarterly and available from this link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/sub-regional-feed-in-tariffs-confirmed-on-the-cfr-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/sub-regional-feed-in-tariffs-confirmed-on-the-cfr-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 02/08/2019 09:53:29 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1140378

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	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, what estimate he has made of the amount of money distributed in (a) generation and (b) export tariffs under the Feed-In Tariffs scheme in each of the last nine years in each nation and region of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	279035
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold FIT spend data disaggregated by region or nation of Great Britain.</p><p>Ofgem publish annual figures on total FIT generation payments made and total FIT export payments made, as part of the Feed-in Tariff Annual Report: <a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/feed-tariff-fit-annual-report-2017-18" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/feed-tariff-fit-annual-report-2017-18</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 02/08/2019 09:49:45 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1140379

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	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	Microgeneration
	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 effect of the (a) closure of the Feed-in Tariff scheme and (b) proposed introduction of the smart export guarantee scheme on the use of microgeneration technologies by residents.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	279036
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>The Impact Assessments for both the closure of the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) and the introduction of the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) included illustrative deployment scenarios for the technologies covered by FIT/SEG.</p><p> </p><p>These can be accessed from the following links:</p><p>FIT closure Impact Assessment (p 10): <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/feed-in-tariffs-scheme" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/feed-in-tariffs-scheme</a></p><p>SEG Impact Assessment (p 8): <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/the-future-for-small-scale-low-carbon-generation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/the-future-for-small-scale-low-carbon-generation</a></p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 02/08/2019 09:45:47 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1140390

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	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 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, what plans he has to maintain support for small-scale renewable heat generation beyond the termination of the Domestic Renewable Heat Initiative in March 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	279039
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>The budget for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) has been set out to the end of March 2021. Decisions on the future funding for the RHI will be set out in the Spending Review.</p><p> </p><p>The government is committed to phasing out installation of fossil fuel heating in buildings not connected to the gas grid during the 2020s. As announced by the Chancellor in the Spring Statement, Government also intends to introduce a Future Homes Standard by 2025, for new build homes to be future-proofed with low carbon heating and world-leading levels of energy efficiency.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 02/08/2019 09:43:00 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1140392

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	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, what estimate he has made of the projected undistributed expenditure in relation to the Feed-In Tariff scheme as a result of the early closure of that scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	279040
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>The Feed-in Tariff closed as expected on March 31<sup>st</sup> 2019 having successfully brought forward over 6GW of small-scale low carbon generation capacity.</p><p> </p><p>Financial limits were imposed on the scheme from 2016 Q2 to scheme closure, with the total annual payments to all installations during this period capped at £100m (2011/2012 prices). Based on Ofgem’s deployment reports, the scheme fell within this limit by £38m (2011/2012 prices).</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 02/08/2019 09:40:20 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1140625

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2019
	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	Electricity Generation
	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 his Department's Guidance on how to prepare for Brexit if there's no deal, what parts of the Government’s plan for generating low-carbon electricity in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal have been implemented.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
	uin	279474
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>The Government has passed legislation which will enable the continued operability of the Feed-in Tariffs scheme, Contracts for Difference scheme, and the Renewables Obligation in the event of a no deal exit from the EU.</p><p> </p><p>In the Clean Growth Strategy, government confirmed it would be making up to £557 million (2011/12 prices) of annual support available for further Contracts for Difference, providing industry with the certainty they need to invest in new projects.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s guidance states that in a no deal scenario, the government has legislated to ensure that Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin issued in EU countries, including for combined heat and power will continue to be recognised. This will allow electricity suppliers to continue to use EU Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin and will ensure that existing supply contracts are not compromised, in so far as these contracts depend upon Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin. This position will be kept under review.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 02/08/2019 09:32:52 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1141331

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	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	Private Rented 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, whether she has plans to bring all houses in multiple occupation within the scope of the minimum energy efficiency standard for the domestic private rented sector.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	280984
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>The Private Rented Sector (PRS) Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard regulations require rented properties that are legally required to have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) to meet a minimum standard of EPC band E, except where an exemption applies. There are no blanket exemptions in the PRS regulations for Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs) however, where rooms are let individually, there is currently no requirement for an EPC to be issued. Government launched a Call for Evidence on EPCs in July last year where we outlined suggestions for improvement. We welcomed views on whether a HMO without an EPC should be legally required to have one when a room in that property is marketed for rent. We are currently analysing EPC Call for Evidence responses and intend to publish a summary of responses to the Call for Evidence in due course.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 03/09/2019 14:43:13 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1141426

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	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	Fuel Poverty: Sutton
	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 she has made of the number of households in the London Borough of Sutton in fuel poverty in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	280907
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2019 answer text <p>The table below shows the number and proportion of households living in fuel poverty in the London Borough of Sutton, from 2015 to 2017. The 2018 data will be published in summer 2020.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Estimated number of households in fuel poverty in Sutton</p></td><td><p>6,000</p></td><td><p>7,100</p></td><td><p>7,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proportion of households in fuel poverty in Sutton (%)</p></td><td><p>7.5</p></td><td><p>8.6</p></td><td><p>9.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proportion of households in fuel poverty in England (%)</p></td><td><p>11.0</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Household figures have been rounded to the nearest 100.</p><p>The latest sub-regional fuel poverty statistics can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-sub-regional-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-sub-regional-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 04/09/2019 08:07:21 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1141630

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	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: Private Rented 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, with reference to the Amending the Private Rented Sector Energy Efficiency Regulations, Final Stage Impact Assessment figures that only 48 per cent of Energy Performance Certificate F- and G-rated privately rented homes will be improved to Band E under the current landlord cost cap of £3,500, if he will use the forthcoming consultation on a trajectory for tightening the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard for the Domestic Private Rented Sector to ensure that a higher proportion of homes will meet any future standard.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	281753
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2019 answer text <p>The Clean Growth Strategy set out the Government’s intention to look at a long term trajectory for energy performance standards across the private rented sector, with the aim of as many private rented homes as possible being upgraded to EPC Band C by 2030, where practical, cost-effective and affordable. We will set out our position on future policy on this area in due course.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 04/09/2019 08:08:08 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham