The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Reynolds on 2015-02-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment his Department has made of the resources needed by local authorities to enforce a minimum energy efficiency standard for the private rented sector.
Amber Rudd
Section 8.1.3 of the policy’s final stage impact assessment contains information regarding the Department’s assessment of resources required by local authorities.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Reynolds on 2015-02-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households that have had a smart meter installed in their property have also had one or more unique energy efficiency measures installed in their property under the Energy Companies Obligation scheme.
Amber Rudd
The Department’s quarterly data on smart meter installations is currently collected from energy suppliers in an aggregated format, rather than at a household level.
As a result, it is not possible to ascertain through data linking how many Energy Companies’ Obligation measures (where the data are collected at household level, and reported on monthly as National Statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/green-deal-and-energy-company-obligation-eco-statistics) have been fitted in households where smart meters have been installed.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Reynolds on 2015-02-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many vouchers from the first round of the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund have been cashed.
Amber Rudd
The latest monthly Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation National Statistic release reported that under release one of the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund, 11,061 vouchers had been paid (following installation of 13,613 measures), with a value of £54.3 million, by the end of December 2014:
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Reynolds on 2015-02-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many Green Deal providers, assessors and installers have broken the Green Deal Code of Practice since the start of the Green Deal.
Amber Rudd
Around 10% of Green Deal assessor organisations and 12% of Green Deal installers have had their authorisations as a Green Deal participant removed for non-compliance issues against the Green Deal Code of Practice. No Green Deal providers have had their authorisation removed.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Reynolds on 2015-09-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what additional financial support he is making available to the NHS to help it deal with winter pressures.
Mr Jeremy Hunt
£400 million in resilience money has been invested in the National Health Service for winter 2015-16. Learning from previous years, we have put this money into the NHS baseline for 2015-16 so that the NHS can plan effectively at local level for the long-term and take earlier action to tackle the symptoms of seasonal pressures.
There will be no further additional money for the NHS ahead of winter.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Reynolds on 2014-03-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his most recent assessment is of the success of the zero carbon homes policy; and if he will make a statement.
Stephen Williams
Budget 2014 reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to implement zero carbon homes from 2016. In Growth Review 2011 we set out a fair, practical and cost effective approach to zero carbon homes. This made house builders responsible for abating the carbon from energy use from systems which they can control – heating and hot water systems and building services – not the energy use from appliances which they cannot be expected to control. We are taking forward the zero carbon homes policy through a staged approach of steadily strengthening the energy performance requirements in the Building Regulations and through the introduction of cost-effective options for off-site carbon reductions – ‘Allowable Solutions’. Under this Government the energy performance requirements for new homes, the latest of which come into force on 6 April 2014, have been strengthened by around 30% from the previous 2006 standard saving house holder’s fuel bills and cutting carbon emissions.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Reynolds on 2014-03-28.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many full-time equivalent staff work in his Department’s Major Infrastructure Tracking Unit.
Danny Alexander
The Major Infrastructure Tracking Unit is part of Infrastructure UK, a team of 70 FTE staff.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Reynolds on 2014-04-30.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many manufacturers of sub-15KW wind turbines are based in the UK; and what the value of exports from this sector was in 2013.
Michael Fallon
The Department does not hold this information.
The renewables industry, including the small and medium wind manufacturers, is an important source of jobs and investment in the UK. In 2013, Renewable UK, the trade association for the onshore wind sector, reported that the UK is home to over ten small and medium wind manufacturers and that nearly 3800 sub-15kw turbines were exported [1].
[1] R-UK Small and Medium Wind Market Report 2013 http://www.renewableuk.com/en/publications/index.cfm/Small-and-Medium-Wind-UK-Market-Report-2013
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Reynolds on 2014-04-30.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes to tariff levels and degression thresholds outlined in Phase 2B of the feed-in-tariff on manufacturing and employment in the sub-15KW wind sector.
Gregory Barker
As the first degression for wind tariff bands was only introduced on 1 April 2014, it is too early to say what impact it has had on manufacturing and employment in the sub-15kW wind sector. Up to the end of 2013, over 5,150 wind installations had been accredited for FITs, and this pace of deployment has shown no signs of slowing since April 2013. The degression mechanism is very important for the cost control of the FITs scheme and for keeping the cost to the electricity consumer as low as possible.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Reynolds on 2014-04-30.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many turbines of capacity of sub-15KW were installed in (a) 2012 and (b) 2013.
Michael Fallon
The number of sub-15kW wind turbines accredited under the Feed-in Tariff scheme during 2012 and 2013, were 1,747 and 327 respectively.
Installations are grouped into years based on their ‘commissioning date’ i.e. the date the technology was physically installed and deemed to be up and running.