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1312498

registered interest
date	27/04/2021
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	Renewable Energy: Exports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potentioal for exporting green energy in the next (1) five, and (2) ten, years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL15301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. I will correspond directly with the noble Baroness.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 29/04/2021 09:29:22 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

1312504

registered interest
date	27/04/2021
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	Medicine: Research
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on charity-funded medical research; what assessment they have made of any such impact on research funding for the university sector; and what steps they will take to make up any shortfalls in funding.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL15307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. I will correspond directly with the noble Baroness.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 29/04/2021 09:29:14 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1311961

registered interest
date	26/04/2021
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	Fires: Carbon Emissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of carbon emissions caused by wildfires in each of the last five years; and how these emissions are accounted for in UK carbon budgets.
tabling member printed	Lord Botham
uin	HL15242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. I will correspond directly with the noble Lord.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 29/04/2021 09:29:27 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4884 label Biography information for Lord Botham

1311713

registered interest
date	22/04/2021
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	Horizon Europe: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, having secured Associate Status to the Horizon Europe programme, whether they will fund participation in that programme in full; and whether there will be a consequential impact on the UK Research and Innovation budget.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL15223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2021 answer text <p>Association to Horizon Europe will bring huge benefits to the UK. The Government has announced an additional £250 million in 2021/22 for Horizon Europe. An additional £400 million, earmarked at Spending Review for 2021/22 to help support government priorities, will help to pay for association to Horizon.</p><p> </p><p>Government investment in R&amp;D will reach £14.9billion in 2021/22, its highest level in four decades. UK scientists will now have access to more public funding than ever before.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 28/04/2021 16:57:07 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1311719

registered interest
date	22/04/2021
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	OECD Countries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what value is attributed to a tonne of carbon in the Treasury’s Green Book; and whether they intend to publish the equivalent figures for each of the OECD countries.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL15229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>Valuing changes in greenhouse gases, including carbon, is vital to ensure climate change impacts are taken into account when appraising and evaluating public policies and projects. Carbon values used during policy appraisal are published as part of the Green Book supplementary guidance: valuation of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions for appraisal. A summary of the current carbon values for 2030, 2040, 2050 is given in the table below (the full annual series can be found in table 3 of the attached). The Government is not intending to publish equivalent figures for each of the OECD countries.</p><p> </p><p><em><strong>Table 1: HMG’s Carbon Values for policy appraisal</strong></em></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£ per tonne of CO2-equivalent (real 2018 prices)</p></td><td><p>Low</p></td><td><p>Central</p></td><td><p>High</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2030</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>121</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2040</p></td><td><p>78</p></td><td><p>156</p></td><td><p>234</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2050</p></td><td><p>115</p></td><td><p>231</p></td><td><p>346</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 29/04/2021 10:44:01 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan attachment 1 file name HL15229 data table.xlsx title HL15229 carbon data table
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1311221

registered interest
date	21/04/2021
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	Housing Improvement: Energy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what funds (1) have been, and (2) will be, allocated to local authorities to enable them to retrofit domestic premises to increase their energy efficiency.
tabling member printed	Lord Foster of Bath
uin	HL15145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>The Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery (LAD) scheme, which supports energy efficiency and low carbon heat projects for low-income households, is being delivered in three phases:</p><ul><li>Phase 1A; around £74 million was allocated to 55 projects in over 100 Local Authorities in October 2020, to be delivered by June 2021.</li><li>Phase 1B:  around £126 million has been allocated to 81 projects in over 200 Local Authorities, for delivery by September 2021.</li><li>Phase 2:  funding of £300 million has been allocated to the five Local Energy Hubs, who will work with Local Authorities in their region to deliver projects by December 2021.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The 2019 Conservative Manifesto committed to a £3.8bn Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) over a 10-year period, to improve the energy performance of social rented homes.</p><p> </p><p>The Summer Economic Update announced the SHDF Demonstrator project, launched in 2020, which has awarded £62m of funding to social landlords across England and Scotland to test innovative approaches to retrofitting at scale, seeing over 2300 social homes improved to at least EPC band C.</p><p> </p><p>The Autumn 2020 Spending Review committed £60m of funding for the first wave of the £3.8bn manifesto commitment in financial year 21/22.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has since committed an additional £300 million on green home upgrades through Local Authorities. This extension will be through an increase in funding to Local Authorities via LAD and the SHDF wave one, and whilst the schemes are currently being designed, the focus remains on upgrading the worst-performing homes with energy efficiency installations and low-carbon heating.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 29/04/2021 10:38:04 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	214 label Biography information for Lord Foster of Bath

1311222

registered interest
date	21/04/2021
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	Energy Company Obligation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to extend the Energy Company Obligation to other measures in addition to space heating.
tabling member printed	Lord Foster of Bath
uin	HL15146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>The targets for the current iteration of ECO are based on the Home Heating and Cost Reduction Obligation (HHCRO) powers set out in the Electricity Act 1989, Section 41B, and Gas Act 1986, Section 33BD. This allows Government to set a target for the promotion of measures for reducing the cost to individuals of heating their homes. Therefore, measures which do not result in space heating savings are not eligible.</p><p> </p><p>Under the current scheme, ECO3, 44% of measures delivered were a form of insulation with the remainder being heating measures, such as replacement boilers, as of January 2021. ECO3 will end in March 2022, however, it was announced in February’s Sustainable Warmth Strategy that ECO4 will run from April 2022 through to 2026. The value of the scheme will also increase to £1bn per annum for ECO4. Further details about ECO4, including the scope of eligible measures, will be consulted on later this year.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 29/04/2021 10:40:21 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	214 label Biography information for Lord Foster of Bath

1311233

registered interest
date	21/04/2021
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	OneWeb: Satellites
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what engagement they have had with (1) the Royal Astronomical Society, (2) the European Southern Observatory, and (3) other relevant stakeholders, about the planned increases in the number of OneWeb satellites in the sky.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL15160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2021 answer text <p>OneWeb has met with the Royal Astronomical Society as well as representatives from the UK Space Agency and European Space Agency to discuss the potential impact of its operations on astronomy.</p><p>BEIS and the UK Space Agency will continue to support the UK science and astronomy community.</p><p>The community is working with colleagues from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), the European Astronomical Society and the International Astronomical Union to clarify what actions could be taken to mitigate interference for the UK community and our international partners.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 28/04/2021 16:50:07 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1311234

registered interest
date	21/04/2021
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	OneWeb and SpaceX: Satellites
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their latest assessment of the risks to low-earth-orbit spacecraft, following the reported near miss between a OneWeb Satellite and a SpaceX satellite in April.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL15161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2021 answer text <p>The UK is committed to ensure increasing level of commercial activity in space is carried out sustainably. We are working with industry to develop regulatory frameworks that promote safety and helping to facilitate international consensus on responsible behaviours in space.</p><p>Alongside our partners from the space sector, the Government are working with the UN and the European Space Agency to improve sustainability guidelines and to develop new ways of reducing the risk of collisions in space and removing space debris and have raised space sustainability as an issue for discussion at this year’s G7 meeting.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 28/04/2021 16:50:22 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1311235

registered interest
date	21/04/2021
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	Peter Marquez
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of any potential conflicts of interest relating to their reported planned appointment of the head of space policy at Amazon to a government advisory position.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL15162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>All prospective government advisory appointments are subject to rigorous vetting and appointment processes, to determine, amongst other things, Conflicts of Interest.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 29/04/2021 09:33:23 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark