Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to help increase the uptake of local authority net zero schemes by small businesses in (a) Enfield North constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The Government recognises that many small businesses across the UK are keen to tackle climate change but find it difficult to know how to start. The first step these businesses can take is to visit the UK Business Climate Hub. The Government has recently relaunched the content on the site, providing more up to date, practical and tailored advice on how to reduce emissions as well as signposting to additional resources.
More widely, Government support for local authorities in delivering net zero is outlined in the Net Zero Strategy and Net Zero Growth Plan.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps her Department is taking to support community energy schemes in (a) Enfield North constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The new £10m Community Energy Fund will enable rural and urban communities across England to access grant funding to develop local renewable energy projects, supporting local growth and enabling places to benefit directly from clean, locally owned energy. The Government will launch applications to the Fund as soon as possible and Community Energy Groups in London, including in the London Borough of Enfield and the Enfield North constituency, will be able to apply through the Greater South East Local Net Zero Hub.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps her Department is taking with energy companies to support the installation of energy efficiency measures through ECO4 in (a) Enfield North constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The Government sets the overall target and rules for the delivery of the Energy Company Obligation but does not direct where measures are installed; that is left to the obligated energy suppliers and their installers.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will make an estimate of the number and proportion of care recipients who are in fuel poverty in (a) Enfield North constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London.
Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero do not hold the data for the number and proportion of care recipients that are in fuel poverty in the Enfield North Constituency, the London Borough of Enfield or London. The latest sub regional fuel poverty statistics show that we consider 12.8% (5,471) of households to be in fuel poverty in the constituency of Enfield North, 13.8% (17,591) in the London Borough of Enfield and 11.9% (431,366) in London.
Sub regional fuel poverty statistics for England can be found through:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-regional-fuel-poverty-data-2023-2021-data
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many households in Enfield North constituency have received support from Energy Company Obligation schemes in each year that they have operated.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The number of households that have received Energy Company Obligation (ECO) measures in Enfield North constituency in each year since 2013 can be found in the table below:
Year | Number of Households receiving ECO measures |
2013 | 643 |
2014 | 763 |
2015 | 930 |
2016 | 209 |
2017 | 60 |
2018 | 336 |
2019 | 102 |
2020 | 87 |
2021 | 252 |
2022 | 240 |
Jan – Jun 2023 | 8 |
Source: Household Energy Efficiency Statistics, headline release August 2023 (underlying data)
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many households in (a) Enfield North constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London were eligible for Alternative Fuel Payments.
Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
The most recent published data for applications for the Alternative Fuel Payment (AFP) scheme in Great Britain can be found here:
More detailed statistics will be published in due course.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of fuel poverty in (a) Enfield North constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London; and what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the rising cost of living on levels of fuel poverty in each of those areas.
Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
The latest official sub-regional statistics for 2021 (published 27th April 2023) indicate that there were 5,471 (12.8%) households in fuel poverty in Enfield North constituency, and 17,591 (13.8%) in the London Borough of Enfield. The latest official statistics for 2022 (published 28th February 2023) show 471,000 (13.2%) fuel poor households in London. The Government has not made any further assessment of trends in fuel poverty in these areas.
Energy efficiency is the best way to tackle fuel poverty in the long term. Financial support is also important and is available through established schemes including the Warm Home Discount.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Funding payments were awarded by type of accommodation in (i) Enfield North constituency, (ii) the London Borough of Enfield and (iii) London.
Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
The Government has not yet published the application figures per local authority or parliamentary constituency area for the Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Funding but this will be published in the autumn. However, the data does not break down to the level of type of accommodation. This is because most of the figures would be too low for accommodation types at constituency and local authority level and so the data would be disclosive.
The latest publication on GOV.UK outlines the number of households in London who received support through this scheme, as of 29 June 2023 - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/energy-bills-support-scheme-alternative-fund-gb-ni-and-alternative-fuel-payment-alternative-fund-applications-made-by-customers.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many households (a) were eligible for, (b) made an application for and (c) received an Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Funding payment in (i) Enfield North constituency, (ii) the London Borough of Enfield and (iii) London.
Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
The government has not yet published data on the number of households that applied or received funding through the Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Funding per local authority or parliamentary constituency. This data will be provided in our next publication this autumn. The latest publication on the number of applications for the scheme can be found on GOV.UK - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/energy-bills-support-scheme-alternative-fund-gb-ni-and-alternative-fuel-payment-alternative-fund-applications-made-by-customers.
We estimate that were approximately 97,700 households in London and 2,900 households located in the Enfield council area who were eligible for the scheme.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the number of families in fuel poverty living in Enfield North constituency.
Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
The latest statistics for the number of households in fuel poverty in parliamentary constituencies in England can be found in the published sub-regional fuel poverty Official Statistics.