Tag: Iain McKenzie

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Iain McKenzie on 2014-03-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of houses in the UK that have solar panels.

Gregory Barker

The latest published statistics show that as at the end of December 2013, there were 427,897 solar panel installations on domestic properties, representing 97 per cent of the total number of solar panels installed in GB (442,102).

Statistics to the end of March 2014 will be published at 09:30am on Wednesday 23^rd April 2014 on the DECC Statistics webpage:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/sub-regional-feed-in-tariffs-confirmed-on-the-cfr-statistics.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Iain McKenzie on 2014-03-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the average time it takes for householders who have installed energy efficient products in their property to recover their costs; and if he will make a statement.

Gregory Barker

The Department’s latest estimates for households installing energy efficient products in their property do not assume a single payback period. The time required to recover installation costs will depend on a large number of factors, specific to the household. Some of the main influencing factors are: the property’s type and size; the measures installed and their cost; the household’s pattern of energy use before the installation; the energy efficiency of the property before the installation; and whether or not there was a subsidy to contribute to the measure’s cost.

All the Department’s take-up projections for energy efficiency measures assume that the households installing measures will recover all the installation costs, with payback ranging from 0 to 25 years.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Iain McKenzie on 2014-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for the Emergency Services Mobile Communication programme; and what steps she is taking to ensure that commercial operators offer a service at least equivalent to the existing service.

Karen Bradley

The current Airwave Solutions Ltd contracts were let under a 20 year Private Finance Initiative arrangement, with a series of 15 year contracts, which expire over the period from September 2016 to December 2020.

The Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme aims to introduce a replacement for Airwave, as current contracts expire from September 2016. The requirements have been developed in partnership with the emergency services and we are running an open and fair competition in accordance with government guidelines.

The aim is to provide a replacement solution which is at least equivalent to the existing service, but not necessarily delivered in the same way.