Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what progress her Department has made on implementing HM Government Response to Sir Patrick Vallance’s Pro-Innovation Regulation of Technologies Review Green Industries, published in March 2023.

In March 2023, the government endorsed all recommendations outlined in Sir Patrick Vallance's review on pro-innovation regulations for green industries. Currently, multiple government departments are implementing these recommendations. At the Autumn Statement, the Chancellor set out a package to unlock investment into green industries including reforming planning processes, speeding up grid connections, and consulting on introducing new permitted development rights to end the blanket restriction on heat pumps one metre from a property boundary in England.