Written questions

Wera Hobhouse

1,041 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Wines: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the withdrawal of the temporary easement for wine on the supply chain for UK-based importers.

22 Oct 2024 · Scotland Office

Energy: North Sea

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps his Department is taking to help support a just energy transition in the North Sea.

22 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Biofuels: Sustainable Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make it his policy to strengthen the biomass sustainability auditing regime before any new Contracts for Difference are awarded.

16 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heating: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to take steps to provide financial support to the homes that his Department considers to be too expensive or difficult to install a heat pump into.

16 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Heat Batteries

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will add heat batteries for a central heating system to the list of energy saving materials that are zero-rated.

16 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Sizewell C Power Station: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 6413 on Sizewell C Power Station: Finance, for what reason disclosure of the proportions of capital allocated by Sizewell C Ltd is consid

16 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Educational Institutions: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Ofsted's report entitled Review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges, published on 10 June 2021, what discussions her Department has had with Ofsted on the extent to which it has implemente

15 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Great British Nuclear: Recruitment and Secondment

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 2 September 2024 to Question 2122 and of 10 September 2024 to Question 5089 on Great British Nuclear: Recruitment, from what organisations how many personnel have be

10 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Building Regulations Act 2010 to introduce mandatory reporting on embodied carbon emissions for

8 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Fossil Fuels: Production

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will take legislative steps to ban the routine (a) flaring and (b) venting of oil and gas by 2030.

8 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Renewable Energy: Landfill

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to extend support for landfill gas to energy operators beyond 2027.

7 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Plastic Packaging Tax: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had discussions with His Majesty's Treasury on the Government's response to the consultation on Plastic Packaging Tax - c

7 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Plastic Packaging Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will include in the forthcoming Budget proposals relating to the plastic packaging tax - chemical recycling and adoption of a mass balance approach consultation, published on 18 July 2023.

7 Oct 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Furniture and Furnishings (Fire Safety) Regulations

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the paragraph 52 of the Second Special Report of the Environmental Audit Committee of Session 2019 on Toxic Chemicals in Everyday Life: Government Response to the Committee’s Twentiet

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Sizewell C Power Station: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much and what proportion of the funding that his Department has allocated to the proposed new nuclear plant at Sizewell C has been allocated for (a) land clearance, (b) other site prepara

12 Sep 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Consumers

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Net Zero, what assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of flexible energy systems on consumers.

11 Sep 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

National Energy System Operator

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the National Energy System Operator (NESO) integrates demand side flexibility into its market design.