Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether National Grid has plans to consult Wattisham Air Base on the East Anglia GREEN project.
Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Consulting on East Anglia Green is a matter for National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET). The Ministry of Defence is a Statutory Consultee under the Planning Act, and the Government understands that NGET are engaging with RAF Wattisham on any potential impacts of the project on Wattisham Air Base.
Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether National Grid has plans to consult Wattisham Air Base on the potential operational implications for the air base as a result of the East Anglia GREEN proposals.
Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Consulting on East Anglia Green is a matter for National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET). The Ministry of Defence is a Statutory Consultee under the Planning Act, and the Government understands that NGET are engaging with RAF Wattisham on any potential impacts of the project on Wattisham Air Base.
Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether National Grid has plans to consult the Ministry of Defence on the potential impact of the East Anglia GREEN proposals on operations at Wattisham Air Base.
Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Consulting on East Anglia Green is a matter for National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET). The Ministry of Defence is a Statutory Consultee under the Planning Act, and the Government understands that NGET are engaging with RAF Wattisham on any potential impacts of the project on Wattisham Air Base.
Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on what financial assessment National Grid has made of installing additional energy transmission capacity immediately adjacent to the current pylon route for the proposed new East Anglia GREEN project.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The developer responsible for the new East Anglia GREEN project, National Grid Electricity Transmission, considers a range of factors of the project, including cost, environmental and socioeconomic impacts, deliverability and system benefit.
Network regulation is a matter for Ofgem, as the independent energy regulator.
Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on what financial assessment National Grid has made of the undergrounding of energy cables for the proposed new East Anglia GREEN project.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The developer responsible for the new East Anglia GREEN project, National Grid Electricity Transmission, considers a range of factors of the project, including cost, environmental and socioeconomic impacts, deliverability and system benefit.
Network regulation is a matter for Ofgem, as the independent energy regulator.
Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on what financial assessment National Grid has made of an offshore route for energy cables for the proposed new East Anglia GREEN project.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The developer responsible for the new East Anglia GREEN project, National Grid Electricity Transmission, considers a range of factors of the project, including cost, environmental and socioeconomic impacts, deliverability and system benefit.
Network regulation is a matter for Ofgem, as the independent energy regulator.
Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support park home owners who do not have a domestic electricity supply contract with the cost of energy.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Government raised this in its technical consultation on the Energy Bills Support Scheme. The responses to this consultation are being analysed and will be published later in the summer.
Vulnerable consumers, including park home residents will be eligible for a £150 contribution towards their energy bills each winter through the Government’s Warm Home Discount Scheme. It is anticipated that the Park Homes Warm Home Discount scheme will re-open again in September 2022. There will also be payments to households on means tested benefits and pensioner and disability cost of living payments. Other support available includes the Winter Fuel Payments and Cold Weather Payments.
Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that domestic energy customers living in park homes are eligible for the £400 discount on energy bills in autumn 2022.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave the hon. Member for St Albans on 20th June 2022 to Question 18990.
Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support tenants who do not have a domestic electricity supply contract with the cost of energy.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Ofgem’s Maximum Resale Price provisions prevent landlords from reselling energy to residents at a higher price than they paid to the licensed energy supplier.
Customers without a domestic electricity supply contract are not eligible for the Energy Bills Support Scheme, so the Government is exploring options for other ways in which they might receive similar support. This was raised in a recent Government consultation and a response will be published later in the summer. The Government has also provided £144 million of discretionary funding for Local Authorities to support households who need support but are not eligible for the Council Tax reduction.
Asked by: Dan Poulter (Conservative - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the amount of agricultural land that has been taken out of food production to facilitate the development of solar farms.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Government recognises the need to preserve the UK’s farmland. Planning guidance encourages solar projects to use previously developed land, and be designed to avoid, mitigate, and compensate for their impacts.
Information on the location of current solar installations is available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-energy-planning-database-monthly-extract