Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, which consultations (a) published and (b) inherited by her Department are awaiting a response; and when she plans to publish each of those responses.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has inherited or published 35 consultations, for which a response by the department is still outstanding:

• Data sharing regulations for a safeguard energy tariff
• Review of consents for major energy infrastructure projects and Special Protection Areas
• Improving the energy performance of privately rented homes
• Improving home energy performance through lenders
• Introducing a performance-based policy framework in large commercial and industrial buildings
• Non-domestic Private Rented Sector minimum energy efficiency standards: EPC B implementation
• Energy retail: opt-in and testing opt-out switching
• Phasing out the installation of fossil fuel heating systems in businesses and public buildings off the gas grid
• Phasing out the installation of fossil fuel heating in homes off the gas grid
• Review of consents for major energy infrastructure projects and Special Protection Areas, 2022
• Managing radioactive substances and nuclear decommissioning
• Decarbonisation readiness: updates to the 2009 Carbon Capture Readiness requirements
• 33rd Seaward Licensing Round Appropriate Assessment
• Future System Operator: second policy consultation and project update
• Heat networks regulation: consumer protection
• Capacity Market 2023: Phase 2 proposals and 10 year review
• Transmission license exemption for array systems connecting to offshore substations
• Climate Change Agreements: consultation on a new scheme
• Carbon capture and storage (CCS) Network Code: updated Heads of Terms
• Amendments to Electricity Supplier Obligation Regulations to implement power CCUS Dispatchable Power Agreement business model
• Home Energy Model: replacement for the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP)
• Home Energy Model: Future Homes Standard assessment
• Hydrogen Storage Business Model: market engagement on the first allocation round
• Hydrogen to power: market intervention need and design
• Hydrogen Transport Business Model: market engagement on the first Allocation Round
• UK Emissions Trading Scheme: future markets policy
• UK Emissions Trading Scheme: free allocation review
• Proposals for heat network zoning 2023
• Long duration electricity storage: proposals to enable investment
• Proposed amendments to Contracts for Difference for Allocation Round 7 and future rounds
• Approach to siting new nuclear power stations beyond 2025
• Alternative routes to market for new nuclear projects
• Empowering drivers and boosting competition in the road fuel retail market
• Transitional support mechanism for large-scale biomass electricity generators
• Future ownership of Elexon: licence and code changes

The Department will respond to each in due course.