Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many smart (a) electric and (b) gas meters have been installed in (i) St Helens North constituency, (ii) Merseyside and (iii) the UK since the smart meter programme was implemented.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
Data on the number of smart electricity and gas meters installed in Great Britain is set out in the Government’s ‘Smart Meters, Great Britain, Quarterly report to end September 2015’, published on 22 December 2015:
The roll-out is making good progress with more than 2 million meters now operating under the Programme which covers Great Britain. Northern Ireland is undertaking a separate roll-out programme.
Currently, data is published only at Great Britain level. Data is not collected from energy suppliers in a way that allows constituency or regional-level data to be produced.
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the average number of households using smart (a) electric and (b) gas meters was in (i) St Helens North constituency, (ii) Merseyside and (iii) the UK in 2015.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department collects quarterly aggregated data from large energy suppliers on the number of smart meter installations, but does not collect data on the number of households with smart meters.
Data on the number of smart electricity and gas meters installed in Great Britain is set out in the Government’s ‘Smart Meters, Great Britain, Quarterly report to end September 2015’, published on 22 December 2015:
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment she has made of the effects of ending funding for Carbon Capture Storage on employment and carbon reduction targets in (a) the North West and (b) the UK.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The UK met the first carbon budget and is on track to meet the second and third carbon budgets for 2013-17 and 2018-2022, respectively. We will set out policies and proposals for meeting the fourth and fifth carbon budgets at the end of 2016, after setting the fifth carbon budget level by 30 June.
The Government’s most recently published Energy and Emissions Projections can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/updated-energy-and-emissions-projections-2015 (Annex J)
The Office for National Statistics estimates in its report on the Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Economy that 96,510 businesses were active in the UK’s low carbon and renewable energy sector in 2014 and accounted for an estimated:
The full report is available at:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171776_426448.pdf.