Asked by: Lord Nash (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many installations accredited under the Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive reported zero metered heat generation in each of the past two scheme years; and what was the total value of public subsidy paid to these installations in each year.
Answered by Baroness Curran - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Domestic and Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive schemes are administered by Ofgem on behalf of the government. Given the nature of the data requested, Ofgem will write to the noble Lord and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Libraries of the House.
Asked by: Lord Nash (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask His Majesty's Government what are (1) the original target, and (2) current forecast, for the uptake of metering and monitoring service packages under the Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme; how many packages have been allocated in each year since introduction; and what evaluation has been undertaken of their effectiveness in identifying underperformance or non-compliance.
Answered by Baroness Curran - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Metering and Monitoring Service Package (MMSP) was designed to support participants and installers on the Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive to understand how heating systems are working in specific households and not to serve as a compliance tool. This was an optional measure for participants and was demand driven with 11,255 packages available in total. Ofgem's published data indicates that 3,530 applications were approved as of September 2023, with information for the preceding years attached.
Asked by: Lord Nash (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many site audits were conducted under the (1) Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive, and (2) Non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive, schemes in each year since 2014; and of these, how many took place in each nation and region of Great Britain, disaggregated for England, Scotland and Wales, and by Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS1 or NUTS2) regions or the most detailed regional classification used by Ofgem for audit reporting.
Answered by Baroness Curran - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Domestic and Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive schemes are administered by Ofgem on behalf of the government. Given the nature of the data requested, Ofgem will write to the noble Lord and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Libraries of the House.
Asked by: Lord Nash (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether Ofgem’s compliance audits for the Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive and the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive are selected through a randomised, stratified, risk-weighted or quota-based sampling methodology; and what statistical confidence level is used when extrapolating fraud and error rates to the wider scheme.
Answered by Baroness Curran - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Domestic and Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive schemes each benefit from two audit programmes annually. They include both randomised and risk weighted methodologies with the ability to consider internal or external referrals. A 95% confidence level is currently applied when extrapolating fraud and error rates for the non-domestic scheme and 90% is applied for the domestic scheme.
Asked by: Lord Nash (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive and (2) Non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme participants have been subject to repeat compliance investigations or site audits since 2014; and what is the total cumulative value of overpayments identified for these cases.
Answered by Baroness Curran - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Domestic and Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive schemes are administered by Ofgem on behalf of the government. Given the nature of the data requested, Ofgem will write to the noble Lord and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Libraries of the House.