Clive Lewis MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Community EnergyDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50180More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing local supply rights for community energy schemes to sell clean power locally.
Answer: The Department is considering a range of reforms to unlock renewable investment and pass through the benefits of cheaper renewables to consumers. This includes potential changes to support local and community energy. The Secretary of State previously comm...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCarbon Capture and StorageDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7488More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent public consultation his Department has undertaken on the efficacy of carbon capture, usage and storage technology.
Answer: CCUS will be vital to this government’s commitment to create good jobs in Britain’s industrial heartlands, ensuring a just transition for the industries based in the North Sea, and accelerating towards Net Zero.The Climate Change Committee (CCC), the UK’s...
Answered 10 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCarbon Emissions and Water: Data CentresDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7487More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what plans he has to monitor the (a) carbon emissions and (b) water usage of data centres.
Answer: (a) Emissions from data centres that occur in the UK - either directly at their locations or at power stations from their electricity use - are included in our published UK territorial greenhouse gas emissions totals, but cannot be attributed to specific ...
Answered 10 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCarbon Capture and Storage: FinanceDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7486More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if his Department will publish the evidential basis informing the decision to fund carbon capture, usage and storage clusters announced on 4 October 2024.
Answer: The Department plans to release the Full Business Cases (FBCs) for the two clusters next year, in line with the requirements for programmes in the Government Major Projects Portfolio.
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCarbon Capture, Usage and Storage: TaxationDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7485More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring carbon capture, usage and storage organisations in receipt of Government funding to be (a) headquartered in the UK and (b) f
Answer: We’re committed to securing the economic benefits for the UK from pioneering CCUS deployment. It is expected to add around £5 billion per year to the UK economy by 2050 and the backing of these first 2 CCUS sites sends a clear signal to investors that the...
Answered 10 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCarbon Capture and StorageDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7484More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the press notice entitled Government reignites industrial heartlands 10 days out from the International Investment Summit, published on 4 October 2024, if he will publish a
Answer: CCUS will be vital to this government’s commitment to create good jobs in Britain’s industrial heartlands, ensuring a just transition for the industries based in the North Sea, and accelerating towards Net Zero.The Climate Change Committee (CCC), the UK’s...
Answered 10 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCarbon Capture and StorageDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6325More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential risks of investing in carbon capture storage technology.
Answer: The Department has developed a risk management approach for monitoring the risks associated with investing in CCS technology. This approach follows government best practice and has been reviewed and approved by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority’s ...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHeat Networks: PricesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6321More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has had recent discussions with Ofgem on setting a timeline to bring heat network pricing in line with prices paid by other consumers.
Answer: Officials in my department have been working closely with Ofgem, ahead of the third and final, joint consultation on proposals for heat network regulation. This will include proposals on fair pricing. This consultation will be published in due course.
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCarbon Emissions: BusinessDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2958More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring (a) financial institutions and (b) other FTSE 100 companies to include information on their employees' commuting emissio
Answer: The Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) policy requires quoted UK companies and large unquoted UK companies and limited liability partnerships (LLPs) to disclose specified energy and emissions (generally Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions, ...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordGreat British EnergyDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 29 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2096More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if his Department will publish all written representations made by the Crown Estate on proposals for Great British Energy.
Answer: On 25th July Government published the Great British Energy Founding Statement, which outlined how the partnership between Great British Energy and The Crown Estate will bring forward and derisk new offshore wind developments, stimulate new technologies in...
Answered 5 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCarbon EmissionsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 26 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1954More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of regulating embodied carbon to help meet net zero targets.
Answer: Last year, the Government consulted on the possible introduction of Mandatory Product Standards, in other words regulations to limit the embodied emissions of products. In response, the previous Government set out it would not commit to introducing Mandat...
Answered 5 Aug 2024
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