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709440

registered interest
date	08/03/2017
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	Green Deal 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, how many firms have been removed from the approved list of Green Deal installers in each calendar year of the scheme to date.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Anne McLaughlin
uin	67151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The table below shows the number of firms that have been removed from the Green Deal (GD) Participants Register each calendar year since the GD scheme began.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Installers Withdrawn by CBs</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>99</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>191</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>410</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>206</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>931</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 21/03/2017 14:09:43 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4437 label Biography information for Anne McLaughlin

709448

registered interest
date	08/03/2017
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	Electric Vehicles
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 capacity market auctions take into account future growth projections for electric vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
uin	67030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2017 answer text <p>National Grid, as System Operator, is responsible for recommending a target capacity for Capacity Market auctions. This recommendation is based on National Grid’s assessment of different scenarios for the level of electricity demand and takes account of projected changes in electricity use. National Grid’s recommendation is scrutinised by an independent Panel of Technical Experts before my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy decides on the final target.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/03/2017 15:39:15 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman previous answer version 40358 answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer

709449

registered interest
date	08/03/2017
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	Electric Vehicles
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 undertaken to ensure the capacity of the electricity grid to respond to current and future demand for electric vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
uin	67031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government has set out its ambition for almost all cars and vans to be zero emissions by 2050. By setting a long-term target, the Government is seeking to ensure that there is time to ready the grid for the mass transition towards cleaner, more efficient vehicles. Existing mechanisms, such as the Capacity Market and network operator business planning, can be used to ensure that network and generating capacity will stay in step with growing electric vehicle demand. Through further work to increase the flexibility in electricity demand and supply, including through promoting smart charging, we aim to ensure that electric vehicle demands are managed efficiently.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/03/2017 15:35:17 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman previous answer version 40360 answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer

709079

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	National Grid: North West
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 successful bidders to construct any or all of the North West Coast Connection will be held to the same standards as National Grid on the (a) design and technology granted in the consent order, (b) levels of mitigation, such as undergrounding, (c) level of community and stakeholder engagement, (d) mitigating the environmental impacts, (e) impact of traffic and transport and (f) opportunities for local companies to form part of the construction supply chain.
tabling member constituency	Morecambe and Lunesdale
tabling member printed	David Morris
uin	66832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>The design and implementation of the proposed competitive regime for onshore transmission assets is properly a matter for Ofgem as the independent regulator. It is important to note that, regardless of who constructs and maintains an asset, all network operators must be licenced by the regulator and are subject to strict controls to ensure safety, security and reliability. Any successful bidders will be held to the same strict standards that the current incumbent network companies operate by, including in regards to industry codes, grid standards and planning requirements.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 13/03/2017 11:39:45 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4135 label Biography information for David Morris

709080

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	National Grid: North West
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 a consumer-based, cost-benefit analysis has been undertaken on the potential benefits and disbenefits of completing all or part of the North West Coast Connection; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Morecambe and Lunesdale
tabling member printed	David Morris
uin	66833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>The design and implementation of the proposed competitive regime for onshore transmission assets is properly a matter for Ofgem as the independent regulator. This would include any analysis or decision on whether to tender for competition any specific projects, including the North West Coast Connection. It is important to note that Ofgem has extensively consulted with industry on these proposals and intends to undertake an impact assessment on the case to tender all, or part, of the North West Coast Connection.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 13/03/2017 11:39:24 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4135 label Biography information for David Morris

709081

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	National Grid: North West
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 influence and by what means communities in the North West will have in decision making over how and who progresses the construction of the North West Coast Connection.
tabling member constituency	Morecambe and Lunesdale
tabling member printed	David Morris
uin	66831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>As a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project, the proposed North West Coast Connection (NWCC) will require development consent under the Planning Act 2008. This requires developers to carry out extensive consultation on their proposals including with local communities before any formal development consent application is submitted to the Planning Inspectorate. Local communities can also provide their views to the Planning Inspectorate during the examination of any formal application. Further information is available on the National Infrastructure Planning website:</p><p><a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/</a></p><p>The design and implementation of the proposed competitive regime for onshore transmission assets is properly a matter for Ofgem as the independent regulator. As part of Ofgem’s decision making process on whether to tender the NWCC project they have run an open consultation which has enabled stakeholders including local communities to put forward their views for consideration. If Ofgem decides to tender the project then this process will run in line with the rules ensuring fair and transparent procurement. It is important to note that regardless of who constructs and maintains an asset all network operators must be licenced by the regulator and are subject to strict controls to ensure safety, security and reliability.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 13/03/2017 11:38:44 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4135 label Biography information for David Morris

708641

registered interest
date	06/03/2017
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish his response to the Coal generation in Great Britain, the pathway to a low-carbon future consultation, published in November 2016; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	66591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2017 answer text <p>The consultation on Coal generation in Great Britain, the pathway to a low-carbon future closed on 8 February 2017. We are currently reviewing the responses received and will be publishing our response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/03/2017 11:07:51 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

707265

registered interest
date	02/03/2017
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	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, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2017 to Question 60586, what recent assessment he has made of the likelihood of the UK failing to meet its 15 per cent renewable target by 2020; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	66314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2017 answer text <p>The UK is currently in line with the trajectory set out in the Renewable Energy Directive, having met the Directive’s interim targets for 2011/12 and 2013/14.</p><p>We are making good progress towards the next interim target, requiring an average of 7.47% of energy to come from renewables across 2015 and 2016. In 2015 alone 8.3% of energy came from renewable sources.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/03/2017 16:05:53 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

707340

registered interest
date	02/03/2017
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	Biofuels
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 Chatham House research paper, Woody Biomass for Power and Heat: Impacts on the Global Climate, published in February 2017, if he will (a) reassess subsidies to biomass for electricity and (b) review biomass policy to ensure it delivers carbon emissions reduction.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	66358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government is firmly committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and moving to a low carbon economy in a cost-effective way for households and businesses. All biomass power plants in the UK are required to meet mandatory sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions criteria.</p><p> </p><p>As the Chatham House report points out, biomass can be sourced in either low or higher carbon manners, depending on the forestry techniques and the types of wood used.</p><p> </p><p>Our analysis[1] shows that sawdust and sawmill residues made up 43% of material used, forestry residues comprising branches, tops and bark made up 28%, thinnings amounted to less that 14% of all biomass feedstocks, with the remaining 15% made up of materials such as waste wood.</p><p> </p><p>The Department keeps under review the level of subsidies available to biomass technologies and monitors the sustainability of biomass used in heat and power generation. We are currently analysing responses to our Call for Evidence for the future of biomass generation under the Contracts for Difference (CfD) from 2018 onwards.</p><p> </p><p><em><strong>[1]</strong></em><em> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/490572/Woodfuel_Disclosure_Survey_2015.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/490572/Woodfuel_Disclosure_Survey_2015.pdf</a></em></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 66359 question first answered 07/03/2017 16:34:54 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

707341

registered interest
date	02/03/2017
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: Subsidies
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 plans to transfer subsidies for coal to established technologies subsidies.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	66357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not subsidise coal.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/03/2017 12:02:10 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard