Julian Lewis MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Solar Power and Wind Power: SecurityDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 16 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52831More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he plans to take to investigate the security of UK (a) solar and (b) wind farms to ensure that there are no kill switches in Chinese-made inverter units installed in their structur
Answer: The Department works continually with Ofgem and the National Cyber Security Centre to ensure that regulations continue to capture the most critical operators of energy generation systems. Distributed and smaller-scale generation are key components of a sm...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNatural Gas: ImportsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39384More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2025 to Question 37979 on Natural Gas: Imports, what the minimum safety criteria are with which a shale gas company must comply when plugging an unused well
Answer: The Heath and Safety Executive and the North Sea Transition Authority are the relevant regulators for onshore shale gas extraction. They regulate compliance with the criteria set for plugging and abandoning wells at the end of their useful life.
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNatural Gas: ImportsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 13 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37979More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Defence on the potential impact of putting the UK’s shale gas wells permanently beyond use on their policies; and whether he has
Answer: The UK has a secure and diverse energy system. Over the past three years the market has successfully delivered sufficient supplies amidst a period characterised by high energy prices and uncertainties caused by Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, and co...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLiquefied Natural Gas: ImportsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 13 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37978More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent estimate his Department has made of the (a) volume and (b) proportion of liquefied natural gas imported from the United States derived from shale gas in each of the last three yea
Answer: Data on gas import origins (including imports of liquified natural gas (LNG) from the US) is published each month in Energy Trends table 4.4. Further disaggregation of US LNG by method of extraction is not collected or available. The UK has no active comm...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
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