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Written Question
Energy Bills Rebate: Warwick and Leamington
Tuesday 31st January 2023

Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people in Warwick and Leamington are eligible for Energy Bills Support Scheme vouchers; and how many of those eligible have redeemed those vouchers.

Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

In the first 3 months of the Energy Bills Support Scheme energy suppliers issued 6,020,560 (99%) vouchers, of which 4,261,940 (71%) had been redeemed by end December. This is an increase from 66% on the previous month.

Delivery data by region, local authority and Westminster parliamentary constituency will be published in due course.


Written Question
Ukraine: Generators
Tuesday 17th January 2023

Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many diesel generators the Government has supplied to Ukraine in the last three months.

Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy provided a total of 856 generators to Ukraine over the course of 2022. 569 of these Generators arrived in Ukraine in May 2022, and the additional 287 generators arrived in Ukraine by end of November 2022.


Written Question
Green Homes Grant Scheme: Warwick and Leamington
Thursday 12th January 2023

Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what was the average amount given to homeowners who had successful applications to the Green Homes Grant voucher scheme in Warwick and Leamington constituency.

Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

BEIS estimates that the average government contribution per successful household application to the Green Homes Grant voucher scheme in Warwick and Leamington constituency was £4,815 for the main scheme and £7,231 for the low-income scheme.

Information on the number of applications by application stage for Green Homes Grant voucher (GHGV) scheme by parliamentary constituency can be found in table 4.4 accompanying the latest release.


Written Question
Green Homes Grant Scheme: Warwick and Leamington
Thursday 12th January 2023

Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many applications for the Green Homes Grant voucher scheme were successful in Warwick and Leamington constituency.

Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

BEIS estimates that the average government contribution per successful household application to the Green Homes Grant voucher scheme in Warwick and Leamington constituency was £4,815 for the main scheme and £7,231 for the low-income scheme.

Information on the number of applications by application stage for Green Homes Grant voucher (GHGV) scheme by parliamentary constituency can be found in table 4.4 accompanying the latest release.


Written Question
Green Homes Grant Scheme: Warwick and Leamington
Thursday 12th January 2023

Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many jobs has the Green Homes Grant supported in Warwick and Leamington constituency.

Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

An evaluation of the effectiveness of the voucher scheme, including analysis of scheme outcomes and evidence collected from scheme applicants and other stakeholders, is being undertaken by an independent research organisation. The evaluation includes an assessment of the effect of the Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme on jobs with findings available in Summer 2023.


Written Question
Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery Scheme: Warwick and Leamington
Thursday 12th January 2023

Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes had been retrofitted through the Local Authority Delivery Scheme in Warwick and Leamington constituency on 31 October 2022.

Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

Information on the number of households upgraded by parliamentary constituency under the Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery scheme can be found in table 11 accompanying the latest release.

Information on the number of households with at least one measure installed by parliamentary constituency under the Green Homes Grant Voucher scheme can be found in table 4.4 accompanying the latest release.


Written Question
Green Homes Grant Scheme: Warwick and Leamington
Thursday 12th January 2023

Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes were retrofitted as a result of the Green Homes Grant in Warwick and Leamington constituency as of 31 October 2022.

Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

Information on the number of households upgraded by parliamentary constituency under the Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery scheme can be found in table 11 accompanying the latest release.

Information on the number of households with at least one measure installed by parliamentary constituency under the Green Homes Grant Voucher scheme can be found in table 4.4 accompanying the latest release.


Written Question
Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund: Warwick and Leamington
Thursday 12th January 2023

Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes had been retrofitted as a result of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Demonstrator in Warwick and Leamington constituency on 31 October 2022.

Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

The 2019 Conservative Manifesto committed to a £3.8bn Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) over a 10-year period. The SHDF Demonstrator and Wave 1 awarded a combined total of around £240m of grant funding to Local Authorities, with data held on local authority-led projects rather than at a constituency level. The SHDF Wave 2.1 competition, which closed on 18th November 2022, will allocate up to £800m of grant funding, with successful projects likely to be notified in March 2023.


Written Question
Green Deal Scheme: Warwick and Leamington
Thursday 12th January 2023

Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many projects had been completed in Warwick and Leamington constituency through the Green Deal on 31 October 2022.

Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

BEIS estimates that in Warwick and Leamington constituency, eleven Green Deal projects are live, meaning all measures have been installed, and between one and five projects have been completed, meaning all measures have been installed and paid off. To manage the risk of revealing personal or commercial data, our approach is not to release non-zero counts of less than five for a small geographic area.

Data covers the period from May 2013 to October 2022.


Written Question
Business: Warwick and Leamington
Thursday 12th January 2023

Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has had recent discussions with the Minister for Women and Equalities on taking steps to improve accessibility to entrepreneurship and business ownership for people with protected characteristics in Warwick and Leamington constituency.

Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)

The Government is fully committed to supporting businesses and creating the best conditions for enterprise so that everyone, whatever their background, has the means and know-how to start and grow a business.

We are supporting early-stage entrepreneurs from all backgrounds through the Start-Up Loans Company which provides funding and intensive support to new entrepreneurs.

Since 2012, 40% of Start Up Loans have gone to women, worth over £344m and 20% of loans worth 187m have gone to Black, Asian, and Ethnic-minority businesses. 142 SMEs in Warwick and Leamington have received Start Up Loans to the value of £1,487,362 as of November 2022.