Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

1697459

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Energy: Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she has made a recent estimate of the total cost to (a) consumers and (b) the Exchequer of issuing curtailment payments to energy companies in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	19567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The System Operator is responsible for managing constraints on the networks. It does this by curtailing a type of generation, for example wind, and turning up an alternative generation, as needed. Costs are funded through electricity bills, not through the Exchequer. Annual network constraint costs for 2023 were £1.4bn (2023 prices).</p><p> </p><p>To manage the level of constraints on the system and ensure the UK's homes can be powered by clean, green energy in future, government is working with Ofgem, network owners and others to halve the build process from 14 years to 7 through our Transmission Acceleration Action Plan.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 27/03/2024 06:21:14 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1697460

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Energy: Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on steps to improve the efficiency of processing planning applications for large energy projects.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	19568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State has regular discussions with ministerial colleagues on a number of issues. Planning reform is discussed regularly at Cabinet level and there have been major Government announcements recently on this issue as part of the Autumn Statement and Spring Budget.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 26/03/2024 07:37:11 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1697461

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Energy: National Grid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she has made an estimate of the number of energy projects waiting to be connected to the national grid.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	19569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>Data from the Electricity System Operator (ESO) shows that there were 1530 energy projects in the transmission connection queue at the end of February 2024.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 26/03/2024 07:34:17 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1697462

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Energy Supply: Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps her Department is taking to encourage investment in the energy supply chain industry.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	19570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The recently published BloombergNEF (BNEF) <em>Energy Transition Investment Trends Report (2023) </em>reported that total public and private investment in UK low-carbon sectors in 2023 reached £60 billion rising from £35 billion in 2022. The Government understands the importance of growing domestic energy supply chains, therefore at Spring Budget 2024 £120m funding to the Green Industries Growth Accelerator (GIGA) was announced, in addition to the £960m already allocated. This will support investments in manufacturing capabilities for the clean energy sectors where the UK has clear strengths: carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS), hydrogen, offshore wind, electricity networks, and nuclear. The Government is also providing up to £160 million to leverage private investment into the port infrastructure required to support floating offshore wind deployment at scale.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine answering member printed Andrew Bowie question first answered 26/03/2024 12:36:13 answering member 4601 label Biography information for Andrew Bowie
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1696214

registered interest
date	14/03/2024
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Solar Power: Supply Chains
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps she plans to take to ensure that companies bidding for support under the Contracts for Difference Scheme are not solely reliant on China’s solar photovoltaic supply chain.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	18681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>Renewable supply chain development is a key Government priority.  The Government asks that all large renewable projects seeking support through Contracts for Difference submit a Supply Chain Plan to the Government, setting out among other things their commitments to investment in the resilience of their supply chains, including diversification and tackling modern slavery.</p> answering member constituency West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine answering member printed Andrew Bowie question first answered 21/03/2024 09:26:17 answering member 4601 label Biography information for Andrew Bowie
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1694989

registered interest
date	11/03/2024
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	District Heating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will make an assessment of the number of individual houses that could be connected to heat networks.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	17841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government’s analysis shows that heat networks could provide about 20% of total heat by 2050 up from the 3% currently. They will provide a greater proportion in the urban areas that will be covered by the heat network zoning legislation in England which will designate areas where heat networks are expected to provide the lowest cost, low carbon heating.</p><p> </p><p>As part of Heat Network Zoning the Government will provide local communities with the tools to accelerate the development of heat networks and ensure that more homes and businesses can have access to greener, cheaper heat. This will include tools that will enable them to identify the number of buildings that are likely to be connected to district heating in these zones.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 15/03/2024 15:35:43 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1694990

registered interest
date	11/03/2024
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	District Heating: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the National Infrastructure Commission's report entitled The Second National Infrastructure Assessment, published on 1 October 2023, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendation to provide subsidies to help property owners connect to a heat network.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	17842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2024 answer text <p>The UK Government is investing over half a billion pounds in funds and programmes to develop new heat networks and improve existing ones. The Green Heat Network Fund is the primary funding mechanism to develop new and existing low carbon heat networks across England. The Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme can also fund connections to heat networks. With the introduction of heat network zoning, we will assess how the Green Heat Network Fund should evolve in the future. The recommendations of the National Infrastructure Commission will be taken into account in this exercise.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 15/03/2024 15:34:35 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1689987

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Iron and Steel and Materials: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Addressing carbon leakage risk to support decarbonisation, published on 18 December 2023, what her Department's definition for determining low emission cement, concrete and steel is.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	14499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>Following the publication of the Government response to the carbon leakage consultation in December, the Government is working to establish Voluntary Product Standards, which would provide UK industry with a framework for comparing products based on their emissions intensity. Voluntary Product Standards will incorporate the most suitable definitions of low carbon for sectors such as cement, concrete and steel, and be developed with regard to the Industrial Deep Decarbonisation Initiative and other industry-led work. The Government will consult this year on Voluntary Product Standards and a supporting framework for reporting the embodied emissions for industrial products.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 22/02/2024 11:13:02 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1689029

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Industry: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to page 69 of her Department's Carbon Budget Delivery Plan, published on 30 March 2023, what steps she is taking to deliver carbon savings associated with Industrial Resource Efficiency for (a) carbon budget 4, (b) carbon budget 5 and (c) carbon budget 6.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	13931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>Government is committed to delivering carbon savings through increased resource efficiency in industry, in line with the 2023 Carbon Budget Delivery Plan. Through UKRI, the Government has provided innovation support, including £30m for the National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Research programme and £66m for the Transforming Foundation Industries programme.</p><p> </p><p>DESNZ has undertaken extensive research to support evidence-based resource efficiency policies. The first reports were published in November 2023. This will complement policies aimed at encouraging consumers to make green choices, such as eco-labelling and product standards. We are also processing the results of a call for evidence on scope 3 emissions reporting.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 21/02/2024 11:50:41 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1689033

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Buildings: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the commitment to match or exceed EU Ecodesign standards in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs publication entitled Our waste, our resources: a strategy for England, published on 18 December 2018, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's policies of the Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/1670.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	13933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>Regulation 2023/1670 applies Ecodesign requirement to smartphones and tablets. These are not priority products under the Framework but the Government is currently considering the implications of the EU’s Ecodesign programme and what the UK’s approach should be across a wide range of products.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 21/02/2024 13:11:01 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy