Written questions

595 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 Mar 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Regional Planning and Development: Angus

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much funding Angus constituency has received from (a) all funding schemes put in place to replace EU structural funding, (b) the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, (c) the Levelling-Up F

5 Mar 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Renewable Energy: Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of her net zero policies on trends in the level of investment in renewable energy.

5 Mar 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Wind Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the switching off of renewable wind power because of grid capacity on household bills.

5 Mar 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

National Grid

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of imposing financial penalties on network companies that fail to deliver grid connections on schedule.

5 Mar 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

National Grid

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many projects that have been granted grid access which have (a) stalled and (b) ceased entirely have been removed from the national grid connection queue in the last year.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Supply: Radio Frequencies

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with refence to the Second National Infrastructure Assessment, published by the National Infrastructure Commission in October 2023, whether her Department is co-ordinating with the Department

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Supply: Radio Frequencies

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department is taking steps to improve energy network resilience by investigating the potential of radio spectrum access for energy networks.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Fuel Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of fuel poverty since 2018.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Electricity Generation: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate her Department has made of the additional costs to consumers associated with uneven Transmission Network Use of System charges increasing the administrative strike price for ren

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Wind Power: National Grid

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to households of curtailing wind generation due to a lack of grid capacity.

28 Feb 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Wind Power: Seas and Oceans

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate her Department has made of the potential GDP value to the economy of reaching the 50GW offshore wind capacity target.

28 Feb 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Wind Power: Seas and Oceans

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what capacity of floating offshore wind projects she plans to fund in the next Contracts for Difference auction round.

28 Feb 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Renewable Energy: National Grid

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many renewable energy projects are awaiting a decision on their application to connect to the national grid as of 28 February 2024.

28 Feb 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will make it her policy not to carry forward surplus emissions from the Third Carbon Budget into future carbon budgets.

30 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Thailand: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how many UK nationals died in Thailand in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023; how many such deaths were due to (i) murder, (ii) manslaughter, (iii) accidental death, (iv) unknown or suspicious

19 Jan 2024 · Cabinet Office

Emergencies: Mobile Phones

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost of the Emergency Alerts system is.

19 Dec 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Refineries: Grangemouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the closure of the Grangemouth oil refinery on the labour market in Scotland.

19 Dec 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of trends in the level of imported energy on the cost of energy for (a) domestic and (b) business customers in the last five years.

19 Dec 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of oil refinery capacity for energy security.

19 Dec 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the UK’s oil refinery capacity for meeting demand for domestic energy.

14 Dec 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensions: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether clause 128 and schedule 11 of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill would apply (a) only to recipients of Pension Credit and (b) to all recipients of the State Pension.

6 Dec 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Charter Treaty: Sunset Clauses

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will make it her policy to negotiate the removal of the sunset clause from the Energy Charter Treaty.

24 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Wind Power: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy to reinstate the offshore wind workers concession.

20 Nov 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Wind Power: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will have discussions with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the potential merits of reinstating the Offshore Wind Workers Concession.

20 Nov 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Renewable Energy: North Sea

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing energy islands in the North Sea.

23 Oct 2023 · Treasury

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when HMRC plans to respond to correspondence of 13 June 2023 from the hon. Member for Angus, reference DD9848.

17 Oct 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Insulation: Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much and what proportion of insulation costs per home will be funded by the additional £80 million under the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund; and whether (a) social housing tenants an

17 Oct 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Insulation: Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Social housing tenants helped to cut energy bills with £80 million for home upgrades, how many social homes will be insulated under t

13 Oct 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Wind Power: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she plans to have discussions with the Home Secretary on the potential merits of reinstating the offshore wind worker concession.

13 Oct 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Storage

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department is developing revised operation criteria to ensure that the System Operator moves away from selecting gas by default in the power system's balancing mechanism and devel

Source: official written-questions record.