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1519129

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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	Electricity: Consumption
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 amount of additional electricity demand that will result from (a) heat pumps in residential homes and (b) domestic electric vehicle charging.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	59256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The Net Zero Strategy sets out how electricity demand is likely to increase by 40-60% by 2035, including increased demand from electric vehicles and heat pumps.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 18/10/2022 16:21:50 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

994555

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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: Consumption
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 terawatt hours of electricity were consumed in the UK in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Stone
tabling member printed	Sir William Cash
uin	183835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The most recent electricity consumption figures available cover the twelve month period from the start of July 2017 to the end of June 2018. During this period, total UK electricity demand was 355.1 terawatt hours. Subtracting energy industry usage, as well as transmission and distribution losses, the final electricity consumption by industry, business and domestic users in the UK was 301.7 terawatt hours during this period. These figures can be found on the National Statistics website here:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 01/11/2018 16:59:30 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	288 label Biography information for Sir William Cash

994556

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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: Consumption
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 gigawhatt hours of electricity supplied by interconnectors was consumed in the UK in the last two 12 months periods.
tabling member constituency	Stone
tabling member printed	Sir William Cash
uin	183836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>In the 12 months from the start of the third quarter of 2017 to the end of the second quarter 2018, 20,485.12 GWh were supplied by interconnector imports.</p><p>In the 12 months from the start of the third quarter of 2016 to the end of the second quarter 2017, 16,933.35 GWh were supplied by interconnector imports.</p><p> </p><p>Source: Energy Trends, National Statistics, table 5.6 (published quarterly) available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 01/11/2018 16:59:36 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	288 label Biography information for Sir William Cash

766005

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
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	Electricity: Consumption
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 much electricity was consumed in each month in 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	106271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>Information on UK electricity consumption by month can be found in Energy Trends table 5.5, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends</a>. The information requested is shown below:</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>UK electricity consumption</em></strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong><em>2015</em></strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Electricity consumed (TWh)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>29.87</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>27.36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>28.35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>25.17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>24.74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>23.44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>24.48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>23.55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>24.18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>25.57</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>26.82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>27.45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>2016</em></strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Electricity consumed (TWh)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>28.96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>27.27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>27.88</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>25.19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>23.86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>23.04</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>23.53</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>23.38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>23.75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>25.87</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>28.11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>28.43</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Source: Energy Trends table 5.5</em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 16/10/2017 15:29:10 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

748336

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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	Electricity: Consumption
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 GWh of electricity consumed in the UK in the last 12 months were supplied by interconnectors.
tabling member constituency	Stone
tabling member printed	Sir William Cash
uin	2893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government routinely publishes total import figures from interconnectors in the annual Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES), and the quarterly National Statistics Energy Trends data.</p><p> </p><p>The latest available 12 month period of data spans 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 and shows a gross import of 17,228 GWh through interconnectors.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 12/07/2017 10:47:46 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	288 label Biography information for Sir William Cash

748337

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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	Electricity: Consumption
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 TWh of electricity were consumed in the UK in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Stone
tabling member printed	Sir William Cash
uin	2892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>In the 12 months ending March 2017, the total UK electricity demand, which includes energy industry use, losses and final consumption by end users, was 354.5 TWh. This is down 0.7 per cent on the same period a year earlier.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: Energy Trends table 5.2 - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends</a></p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 12/07/2017 10:45:34 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	288 label Biography information for Sir William Cash

439384

registered interest
date	17/12/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Electricity: Consumption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what electricity consumption in England was in (a) 2005, (b) 2010 and (c) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	20611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>Electricity consumption in England was 293 TWh in 2005, 276 TWh in 2010, and 255 TWh in 2014. Figures for 2015 will be published in due course.</p><br /><p>Data from “Electricity generation and supply figures for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England, 2004 to 2014”, Energy Trends, December 2015, available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-trends-december-2015-special-feature-article-electricity-generation-and-supply-figures-for-scotland-wales-northern-ireland-and-england-2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-trends-december-2015-special-feature-article-electricity-generation-and-supply-figures-for-scotland-wales-northern-ireland-and-england-2</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 05/01/2016 12:32:38 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

176758

registered interest
date	29/01/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Electricity: Consumption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when he plans to publish an update to the sub-national total final electricity consumption statistics.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	222721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The sub-national electricity consumption statistics for 2013 were published on Thursday 18<sup>th</sup> December 2014 on the DECC website. A summary report highlighting the key statistics can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-national-electricity-and-gas-consumption-summary-report-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-national-electricity-and-gas-consumption-summary-report-2013</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/02/2015 13:27:41 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 42705 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

171955

registered interest
date	05/01/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Electricity: Consumption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of electricity consumption in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland from 21 December 2014 to 7 January 2015.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	219695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2015 answer text <p>Information for the time period requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 219689 219690 question first answered 08/01/2015 17:50:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex