See Anne-Marie's appearances in Parliament as well as her speeches as Minister of State:
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Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan addresses International Women's Day event: International Champion on Adaptation and Resilience delivers keynote speech at COP26 event, 'Climate Action and Gender Equality: Can We Close One Gap Without the Other?’, 8 March 2021: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/climate-action-and-gender-equality-can-we-close-one-gap-without-the-other
Achieving the SDGs amidst COVID-19: UK National Statement to UN High Level Political Forum 2020, 17 July 2020: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/achieving-the-sdgs-amidst-covid-19
International COVID Response Oral Statement: Secretary of State Rt. Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP makes an Oral Statement in the House of Commons, 6 May 2020: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/international-covid-response-oral-statement
UK calls for ‘long term’ approach to prepare for future pandemics at World Bank meeting: UK support to World Bank will help build more resilient economies in the developing world and support the global economic recovery, 17 April 2020: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-calls-for-long-term-approach-to-prepare-for-future-pandemics-
Fifth anniversary of the conflict in Yemen: joint statement: The Foreign Secretary and the International Development Secretary urge parties to work towards a political solution to end the world's worst humanitarian crisis; 26 March 2020: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/fifth-anniversary-of-the-conflict-in-yemen-joint-statement
UK Space Conference: Minister for Defence Procurement Anne-Marie Trevelyan's speech at the UK Space Conference in Newport, South Wales, 27 Sep 2019 https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/uk-space-conference
Minister for Defence Procurement Anne-Marie Trevelyan's speech at DSEI: Minister for Defence Procurement Anne-Marie Trevelyan's keynote speech on the opening day of Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) 2019, 10 Sep 2019: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/minister-for-defence-procurement-anne-marie-trevelyans-speech-at-dsei
Parliament: All of Anne-Marie's most recent speeches are listed below, the rest can be found at the following address: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?pid=25439&pop=1
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Green Homes Grant Scheme (23 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Following a review, the Green Homes Grant Vouchers scheme closed to new applications on 31 March 2021. The voucher scheme will not reopen. We will refocus efforts and funding on alternative approaches which will maximise delivery of home retrofits for consumers who are most in need. The Government will be expanding its funding commitment for both the Local Authority Delivery element of...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Green Homes Grant Scheme: North West Norfolk (23 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Official statistics for the Green Homes Grant (Voucher) Scheme were released on 18 March. From this release, 27 vouchers were issued in the North West Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, up to the end of February. The figure above represents the number of measures approved for installation under the scheme, with a voucher for each measure awarded to the customer. The next statistical...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Green Homes Grant Scheme: North West Norfolk (23 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Official statistics for the Green Homes Grant (Voucher) Scheme were released on 18 March. From this release, 78 applications were received from households in the North West Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, up to the end of February. The figure above represents the number of household applications that have not been withdrawn or rejected from the scheme. The next statistical release...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Housing: Energy (23 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Support to improve the energy efficiency of homes off the gas grid is available through two current schemes:The Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme is worth £640m per year and is a legal obligation placed on larger energy suppliers to deliver energy efficiency and heating measures to fuel poor, low income and vulnerable consumers across Great Britain. The current scheme runs until March...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Private Rented Housing: Energy Performance Certificates (23 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Department recently consulted on raising the energy performance standards in the domestic private rented sector to EPC band C for new tenancies from 2025 and all tenancies by 2028. As part of the consultation, we sought evidence on the possible impacts of the policy on the size of the private rented sector and on listed buildings and those in conservation areas. We are currently analysing...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Green Homes Grant Scheme (23 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Government recently announced an extra £300 million of funding to be invested to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the nation’s homes through energy efficiency and low carbon heating schemes, delivered through the Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery (LAD) Scheme and Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF). Through the LAD scheme, all eligible measures must be included...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Hydrogen (23 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Low carbon hydrogen will be vital for meeting our legally binding commitment to achieving net zero by 2050, with potential to help decarbonise vital UK industry sectors and provideâ¯flexible deploymentâ¯across heat, power and transport. Working with industry, the UK is aiming for 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030. As we progress towards this ambition, we would hope to...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Wind Power: Seas and Oceans (23 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: In October 2020, my Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced £160m of support for offshore wind coastal manufacturing infrastructure across the whole of the UK, and committing to deploying 40 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030. In February 2021, the Department announced up to £95 million of government investment for two new offshore wind port hubs, to be constructed on Humberside and...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Housing: Energy (22 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Government recently announced an extra £300 million of funding to be invested to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the nation’s homes through energy efficiency and low carbon heating schemes, delivered through the Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery (LAD) Scheme and Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF). This brings the total government funding for energy efficiency and low...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Electricity Interconnectors: Costs (22 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: SCD1, the proposed 2GW offshore HVDC link between Suffolk and Kent is planned to transfer renewable energy generated from offshore wind farms on the coast of East Anglia to demand within the south east of England, bypassing the most constrained areas of the network. National Grid Electricity System Operator’s Network Options Assessment (NOA) 2020/21 indicates a cost band for this project of...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Electricity Interconnectors: Costs (22 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Western Link is a joint venture between National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) and Scottish Power Transmission (SPT), which become operational in 2017. It is an electricity transmission subsea link built primarily to transfer renewable energy from Scotland to homes and businesses in England and Wales, which Ofgem stated has cost £1.3 billion.
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Buildings: Carbon Emissions (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: In order to meet our Net Zero by 2050 target, we must act now to tackle the emissions produced by heating. In order to ensure continued progress, we have set a series of legally binding “carbon budgets”, which are amongst the most stringent climate targets in the world. The Government is planningâ¯toâ¯publish theâ¯Heat and Buildingsâ¯Strategyâ¯in due course, which will set out our...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Green Homes Grant Scheme (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Government will be expanding its funding commitment in financial year 21/22 for both the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) and the Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery scheme (LAD) with £300 million of new funding. Furthermore, £150m has already been committed to the Home Upgrade Grant (HUG), intended to support low-income households by upgrading the worst-performing...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Hydrogen: Finance (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Government announced £171m of funding to support nine projects looking to decarbonise activity across five industrial clusters through the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge. Projects in Scotland, South Wales, Humberside, Teesside and the North West will all receive government support to deploy a range of low-carbon infrastructure and technologies, including but not limited to, low...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Hydrogen (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy set out that to be on track to deliver net zero, we expect that the minimum, in all future scenarios, is 20 TWh per year of fossil fuel use replaced with low carbon alternatives in 2030. Hydrogen, electrification and bioenergy all have a role to play, including green hydrogen. Further details will be set out in the forthcoming Hydrogen Strategy.
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Hydrogen: Finance (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Government is providing significant amounts of support to green hydrogen projects. We are investing up to £33m to support the development of a range low carbon hydrogen supply solutions, including green hydrogen projects, through the Hydrogen Supply competition. This includes: o The Dolphyn project, led by ERM, received £3.1m to develop green hydrogen production from floating offshore...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Hydrogen (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The UK is aiming for 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030 for use across the economy, and we expect this to come from a combination of green and blue hydrogen production methods. The UK currently produces around 10 – 27TWh of hydrogen, most of which is not low carbon (‘grey’) for use in the petrochemical sector. Production of large-scale blue hydrogen requires the...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Hydrogen (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The UK is aiming for 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030 for use across the economy, and we expect this to come from a combination of green and blue hydrogen production methods. The UK currently produces around 10 – 27TWh of hydrogen, most of which is not low carbon (‘grey’) for use in the petrochemical sector. Production of large-scale blue hydrogen requires the...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Industry: Carbon Emissions (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Government is committed to supporting industry with the ambitious decarbonisation needed to deliver on the Net Zero target. The Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy, published in March, explains our approach We will align the UK Emissions Trading Scheme cap to be consistent with Net Zero, and are considering mechanisms to further strengthen the UK ETS and the Climate Change Agreements...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Renewable Energy (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Government’s priority is to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities and adapt to those impacts that are unavoidable. Negative emissions from technologies such as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) may be required to balance residual emissions from some of the most difficult to decarbonise sectors, such as agriculture and aviation. The Climate Change...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Minerals: Manufacturing Industries (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: As we set out in our Integrated Review last month, our priority actions include, “to diversify the UK’s supply in critical goods, such as medical equipment and rare earth elements, through trade partnerships and international collaboration… Within the UK, we will continue to explore opportunities around domestic extraction and processing of critical minerals, such as lithium, as well as...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Energy: Conservation (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Government will be expanding its funding commitment in financial year 21/22 for both the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund and the Local Authority Delivery element of the Green Homes Grant scheme with £300 million of new funding and up to £100 million of recycled funding from the Green Homes Grant Vouchers, depending on take up.
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Green Homes Grant Scheme (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme was designed to provide a short-term economic stimulus while tackling our contribution to climate change. In order to ensure we continue to deliver on our net zero ambitions and support a thriving building retrofit industry, the Government will be expanding its funding commitment in financial year 21/22 for both the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Green Homes Grant Scheme (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Following a review, the Green Homes Grant Vouchers scheme closed to new applications on 31 March 2021. We will refocus efforts and funding on alternative approaches which will maximise delivery of home retrofits for consumers who are most in need. The Government will be expanding its funding commitment in financial year 21/22 for both the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund and the Local...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Energy: Double Glazing (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: As part of reaching Net Zero by 2050, the Clean Growth Strategy set out that all homes should reach EPC C by 2035 where cost effective, affordable, and practical. Double glazing is a popular energy efficiency measure and the English Housing Survey suggests that more than 85% of properties in England are fully double glazed, with less than 4% having no double glazing. As such, there is limited...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Offshore Industry: Environment Protection (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: We will provide progress updates on the implementation of the North Sea Transition Deal to the North Sea Transition Forum in both April and October 2021, ahead of COP26. The North Sea Transition Forum is hosted and chaired by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) and is the tripartite body which provides senior government and industry leadership for the offshore oil and gas industry. It is attended...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Members: Correspondence (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: My noble Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Lord Callanan, wrote to the Hon. Member on 14 April 2021 about support for households to reduce energy bills.
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Business: Carbon Emissions (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Achieving our net zero goal requires all businesses to take action. My Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister has set out his Ten Point Plan for the UK to lead the world into a Green Industrial Revolution. This innovative programme sets out ambitious policies and £12 billion government investment to support up to 250,000 green jobs. It will accelerate our path to reaching net zero by 2050, and...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Business: Renewable Energy (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Government is working with stakeholders to drive the ambitious action needed from UK businesses to help tackle climate change and reduce their impact on the environment. Significant financial savings are available to businesses taking steps to improve their energy efficiency and decarbonise to achieve Net Zero. We are working to encourage as many UK businesses to pledge to join the Race...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Carbon Capture and Storage (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Phase-1 of the Government’s Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS) Cluster Sequencing Process aims to sequence industrial clusters for decarbonisation over the next decade. The focus of the process will be in identifying those clusters most suited for deployment of CCUS from the mid-2020s, whilst also delivering wider benefits such as economic benefits and learnings that will enable the...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Carbon Capture and Storage (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Phase-1 of the Government’s Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS) Cluster Sequencing Process aims to sequence industrial clusters for decarbonisation over the next decade. The focus of the process will be in identifying those clusters most suited for deployment of CCUS from the mid-2020s, whilst also delivering wider benefits such as economic benefits and learnings that will enable the...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Construction: Coronavirus (21 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Construction workers play a crucial role in supporting our public services, maintaining vital infrastructure, and providing and maintaining safe, decent homes for people to live in. Throughout the pandemic, the Government has been clear that construction activity should continue, where it can take place safely. The Government has worked with the Construction Leadership Council’s...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Environment Protection (19 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: As a Competent Authority, the energy regulator Ofgem, has an obligation to ensure Alternative Dispute Resolution is provided in the energy sector under the Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes (Competent Authorities and Information) Regulations 2015. Ofgem has appointed Ombudsman Services: Energy as the redress provider in the energy sector and has set out the types of...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Carbon Emissions (19 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Government has extended the Energy Company Obligation to 2026 and expanded the Warm Home Discount to £475 million per year from 2022 to 2025/2026. This will see targeted support continue to be provided to low-income and vulnerable households to install energy saving measures and heat their homes over the winter months, while making savings on their energy bills through having better...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Social Rented Housing: Energy (19 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The bid window for the first wave of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund will open in Autumn 2021.The competition guidance is still being designed, but it is thought that the bid window will be open for around 6 weeks. Project delivery will run until March 2023. Further details on the application process will be announced later in the year.
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Energy: Coronavirus (19 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Provisional data for 20201 shows an increase in average UK gas and electricity consumption of 5% and 4% respectively, relative to 2019, once temperature effects have been removed. The price falls in both fuels, however, mean that the average dual fuel bill decreased in real terms by 5%. Data is not available by city or constituency, but provisional 20202 data shows that the West Midlands...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Renewable Energy (19 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The consultation was produced at no additional cost to the Government.
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Renewable Energy (19 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Government has been in consistent contact with government departments and arms length bodies throughout the development of the consultation, the associated announcement, and pursuant Government response and implementation.
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Renewable Energy (19 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Government published detailed guidance accompanying the implementation of the policy shift on 31st March. This is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-the-governmen t-will-implement-its-policy-on-support-for-the-fossil-fuel-e nergy-sector-overseas.
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Energy: Meters (19 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Smart meters are replacing traditional gas and electricity meters in Great Britain as part of an essential infrastructure upgrade to make the energy system more efficient and flexible, enabling the cost-effective delivery of net zero greenhouse gas emissions. Smart meters also provide households with accurate, near-real time information about energy consumption in pounds and pence via an...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Electricity Generation (19 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The transmission network charging regime is a matter for Ofgem as the independent regulator. Transmission charges are set to reflect the costs which generators and demand customers in different locations impose on the transmission network. For Scotland, it means that generators generally pay higher charges than elsewhere, as they are further from demand centres, whilst Scottish consumers...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Tidal Power (15 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Morlais project is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh Government and has received funding through the North Wales Growth Deal. Since 2003, various bodies across Government have provided innovation funding of £175m to the wave and tidal sectors.
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Radioactive Materials: Transport (15 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The most recent amendments to the Carriage of Dangerous Goods Regulations and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment 2009 made by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy implemented emergency preparedness and response requirements in Council Directive 2013/59/EURATOM. Nuclear and radiation safety is a top priority for Government and our arrangements are kept under...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Radioactive Materials: Transport (15 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The most recent amendments to the Carriage of Dangerous Goods Regulations and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment 2009 made by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy relating to the transportation of class 7 (radioactive) goods came into effect in April 2020 (The Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Regulations 2019 No. 598). The changes implemented emergency...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Carbon Capture and Storage: North West (15 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: As my Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister’s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution made clear, we are committed to two carbon capture clusters by the mid-2020s and for a further two clusters by 2030. These are expected to be in areas of heavy industry such as the North East, the Humber, North West, Scotland, and Wales. In February we published a consultation on a potential approach...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Green Homes Grant Scheme: Croydon Central (15 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Official statistics for the Green Homes Grant (Voucher) Scheme were released on 18 March. From this release, 64 applications were received from households in the Croydon Central Parliamentary Constituency, up to the end of February. The next statistical release will be published on 22 April.
Cop26: UN Sustainable Development Goals (14 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Thank you, Mr Speaker. That is a new title. I was happy with international champion, but I am sure vice-president is acceptable, too. The actions we are taking to tackle climate change support the delivery of a range of UN sustainable development goals. Through the Together for Our Planet campaign and Race to Zero, we are encouraging towns, cities and communities to drive climate action at a...
Cop26: UN Sustainable Development Goals (14 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: It is important that we encourage and, indeed, provide the tools—and the Together for Our Planet campaign is one of those tools—to help our constituents, our towns and our cities to understand and take charge for themselves of the impact they can have in helping to meet our Paris agreement challenge. That involves everything from household choices through to changes in how we run our...
Cop26: Biodiversity Loss and Climate Action (14 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Climate change and biodiversity loss are inextricably linked, which is why the UK has made nature a core priority of our COP26 presidency. We pioneered and launched the leaders’ pledge for nature in September last year, and we are also driving global action to protect and restore critical ecosystems such as forests and accelerating our transition towards sustainable agriculture while...
Cop26: Biodiversity Loss and Climate Action (14 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Prime Minister and President Xi have agreed that the UK and China should work together, as respective hosts of the United Nations framework convention on climate change COP26 and the convention on biological diversity COP15, to reinforce and amplify those linkages between climate change and biodiversity loss and to achieve mutually supportive and ambitious outcomes at both summits. We...
Cop26: Topical Questions (14 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The COP26 nature campaign is driving ambitious international and domestic action to protect and enhance our environment, and this will be a high priority at COP26 in November. I commend the work that Surfers Against Sewage are doing on water pollution and water quality, which I hope to see first-hand when I visit Cornwall as part of the G7 summit in June. Protecting the ocean, including...
Cop26: Topical Questions (14 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: We are working closely at many levels with international partners on preparations for COP26 and to accelerate climate ambitions. The COP26 President-designate has met large numbers of Governments. He is already out and about visiting many countries—15 in the past few weeks—and briefing UN member states on a regular basis. I am working with the most vulnerable countries to make sure that...
Written Answers — Cop26: Question (14 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Carbon pricing has been shown to incentivise investment in renewable energy in a cost-effective manner. The UK has long been a supporter of carbon pricing and continues to lead the way with the new UK Emissions Trading System.
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Local Government: Carbon Emissions (13 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Over £20million has been invested in the Local Energy Programme to date, including £1.6m which has funded all 38 Local Enterprise Partnerships to develop local energy strategies.
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Housing: Heating (13 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: In the Ten-Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, my Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced our ambition to grow the heat pump market to 600,000 installations per year by 2028 to put us on track for net zero by 2050. The Government is developing a comprehensive package of policies to help meet this ambition. We have set out proposals for some parts of this package and will...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Solar Power: VAT (13 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Taxation is a matter for HM Treasury. However, BEIS Ministers are in regular contact with Treasury Ministers to discuss a wide range of issues of mutual interest, including options for facilitating deployment of the low- cost renewable technologies needed to help meet our 2050 net zero target.
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Energy: Prices (13 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The price cap is revised every 6 months so that it is consistent with the underlying costs of supplying energy to households. Determining efficient costs is inherently challenging, but this is the product of Ofgem’s wide-ranging and in-depth benchmarking exercise. The Government has complete confidence in Ofgem, as the independent regulator of the GB gas and electricity markets, to...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Green Homes Grant Scheme (13 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: In his Spending Review 2020, my Rt. Hon. Friend Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer announced £320 million of funding for the Green Homes Grant Voucher scheme for use in financial year 21/22. Following a review, the voucher scheme closed to new applications on 31 March 2021. All valid applications made to the scheme up to 31st March 2021 will be processed, and all vouchers issued will be honoured...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Green Homes Grant Scheme (13 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery scheme will deliver energy efficiency upgrades to low-income households via Local Authorities, using existing, or newly procured services from certified installers. All procurement or contracts to supply services under the GHG LAD scheme will be carried out at Local Authority level. The full £500m has now been granted to Local Authorities in...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Hydrogen: Finance (13 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Government announced £171m of funding to support nine projects looking to decarbonise activity across five industrial clusters through the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge. Projects in Scotland, South Wales, Humberside, Teesside and the North West will all receive government support to deploy a range of low-carbon infrastructure and technologies, including but not limited to,...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Green Homes Grant Scheme (13 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: In line with government best practice, BEIS published the contract and legally required information on 17 March. The top three performance indicators have been redacted as they are commercially sensitive, and their publication would be inappropriate at this time.
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Green Homes Grant Scheme (13 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Following a review, the Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme closed to new applications on 31 March 2021. BEIS expects ICF to honour their contractual commitments. All compliant applications made to the scheme up to 31st March 2021 will be processed, and all vouchers issued will be honoured.
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Green Homes Grant Scheme: West Midlands (13 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Official statistics for the Green Homes Grant (Voucher) Scheme were released on 18 March. The data published in this release is for all applications received to the end of February 2021. From this release, the number of vouchers issued are as follows: (a) Edgbaston Parliamentary Constituency - 17 (b) Birmingham Local Authority - 923 (c) the West Midlands Region – 3,522 The figures above...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Green Homes Grant Scheme: West Midlands (13 Apr 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Official statistics for the Green Homes Grant (Voucher) Scheme were released on 18 March. The data published in this release is for all applications received to the end of February 2021. From this release, the number of household applications received are as follows: (a) Edgbaston Parliamentary Constituency - 82 (b) Birmingham Local Authority - 2,443 (c) the West Midlands Region - 9,106 ...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Energy Supply (30 Mar 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) works closely with electricity and gas companies, the regulator Ofgem and other stakeholders to ensure that the appropriate measures are in place to protect customers, especially the most vulnerable. During the COVID-19 outbreak, electricity and gas network operators reviewed and modified their working practices to comply...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Energy Supply: Wakefield (30 Mar 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Electricity network operators are obliged to maintain a Priority Services Register (PSR) to ensure the correct support is given to the most vulnerable customers. Each network operator maintains its own register and shares this information with energy suppliers. Northern Power Grid, the network operator responsible for operating and maintaining the electricity distribution network in North...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Lime: UK Emissions Trading Scheme (30 Mar 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: As stated in the Government Response to the Consultation on The Future of UK Carbon Pricing, as part of the Free Allocation Review, we will be looking at possible future changes to benchmarks used within the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS). The review will consider which benchmarks could be best suited for the UK ETS. A call for evidence was launched on 17 March as part of the review and...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Lime: EU Emissions Trading Scheme (30 Mar 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: As stated in the Government Response to the Consultation on The Future of UK Carbon Pricing, initially the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) will use Phase IV EU ETS benchmarks. This ensures continuity for participants for the 2021 launch, ensures that benchmarks are based on sufficiently broad sets of data, and ensures free allocation is awarded on a comparable basis to EU counterparts. ...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Fossil Fuels: Exploration (30 Mar 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Department has conducted a review into the future of offshore oil and gas licensing, which has concluded that a new climate compatibility checkpoint will be introduced into the regime. This will help ensure that any future licenses are only awarded on the basis that they are aligned with the government’s broad climate change ambitions, including the UK’s target of reaching net zero by...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Tidal Power (29 Mar 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: As my Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced through the 10 Point Plan, the next Contracts for Difference (CfD) allocation round will open in late 2021. This is set to be our biggest auction yet, with the aim of securing up to double the renewable electricity capacity of previous rounds. We remain on course with this timetable and plan to publish draft auction parameters roughly five...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Solar Power: Regulation (26 Mar 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Smart Export Guarantee (SEG), introduced in January 2020, ensures that small-scale generators have a guaranteed access to the market while enabling electricity suppliers and other market participants to innovate in this area. To provide space for this small-scale export market to develop and to promote innovation, the legislation sets out no specified minimum tariff rate, other than that...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Renewable Energy (26 Mar 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Ofgem are to publish their first report on the provisions made by suppliers for smaller scale exports under the Smart Export Guarantee in the summer. We will review this before considering whether there are any further barriers to community energy development that need to be addressed. The Government continues to offer support to communities who want to generate energy locally through the...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Climate Change: Advisory Bodies (26 Mar 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: This November, the UK will host COP26 in Glasgow bringing together world leaders, climate experts, business leaders and citizens to agree ambitious action to tackle climate change. We are setting out ambitious plans across key sectors of the economy, and ahead of COP26 we will be publishing further plans including a comprehensive Net Zero Strategy. We are extremely grateful to our independent...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Fossil Fuels (25 Mar 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Government published its response on the 24th March. The link to this publication will be available soon.
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Carbon Emissions (25 Mar 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The Climate Change Act 2008 introduced our framework of carbon budgets to mitigate climate change by ensuring continued progress towards our emission reduction target, capping emissions in successive five-year blocks. Through this legal framework and ambitious policy action, we have shown that cutting emissions and growing the economy go hand-in-hand – reducing our emissions by over 43%...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Climate Change: Ethnic Groups (25 Mar 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The impacts of climate change are not equally distributed across people or communities, and it is well-established that existing social inequalities result in a disproportionate negative impact of climate change among disadvantaged groups. BEIS has committed to improving how it takes account of equality, diversity and inclusion in its policy-making, to develop our interventions in a more...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: TrustMark (24 Mar 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: In order to become a business registered with TrustMark, the business must demonstrate to the TrustMark Scheme Provider that it complies with the rigorous TrustMark Framework Operating Requirements. These requirements have clear conditions, including the disclosure of any previous and/or present business interests that will impact upon the registration of the business. This has been...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Carbon Emissions (24 Mar 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: The UK is already leading the fight against climate change as we work to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. In setting our carbon emission ambitions, we take advice from the Climate Change Committee, an independent, statutory body which provides expert advice to Government on climate change mitigation and adaptation. Adapting to, as well as mitigating, the inevitable changes...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Renewable Energy (24 Mar 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: As announced by my Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister in October 2020, the next Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction round (Allocation Round 4) is due to open in late 2021. Preparations for the round are ongoing, and we will publish the timetable for the round and information on allocation round parameters later this year. The Government recently ran a Call for Evidence inviting views on...
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Water Power (24 Mar 2021)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Tidal and wave technologies could have a potentially important role in the long-term decarbonisation of the UK, however, they will have to reduce their costs sufficiently, to compete with other renewable technologies. We are committed to growing a development of a competitive UK supply chain in parallel with our plans for increasing the deployment of renewable electricity generating...