Asked by: Bill Esterson (Labour - Sefton Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January to Question 119980, what estimate he has made of the total level of emissions from steel plants in the UK.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
The publicly available data, as part of the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS), shows monitored emissions from the named installations of the steel primary producers were, in aggregate, 11.8 million tonnes CO2 in 2021. However, as explained in the Answer of 16 January to Question 119980, ETS emissions are not necessarily the emissions for a whole site – they only cover the site’s activities which are regulated under the ETS. The Government does not hold data on any non-ETS emissions.
Asked by: Bill Esterson (Labour - Sefton Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 22 December 2022 to Question 110668 on Heating: Fossil Fuels, for what reason his Department has not yet responded to the consultations published on 19 October 2021.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The Government has received a significant number of responses to its consultation of 19 October 2021 and is considering them carefully. The Government will respond to the consultation in due course.
Asked by: Bill Esterson (Labour - Sefton Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2023 to Question 118973 on Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries, if he will make an estimate of the average amount of government funds to decarbonise a steel plant will receive.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
Each steel company and site are different and will have different choices about their decarbonisation and technology pathway. It is therefore not possible to estimate the average level of Government support that could possibly be required.
Asked by: Bill Esterson (Labour - Sefton Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2023 to Question 118973 on Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries, which (a) steel plants, (b) constituencies and (c) regions have been allocated how much government funds to become more energy efficient.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
Information on the awards granted is not collated in the form requested. However, for details of all awards made under the programmes listed in Question 118973, I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave him today to Question 126622.
Asked by: Bill Esterson (Labour - Sefton Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Answer of 12 January 2023 to Question 118973, how much funding has been allocated to steel plants for decarbonisation through the £1.5 billion bidding fund, as of 18 January 2023.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
Industrial businesses, including steel plants, can bid into Government competitive funds worth more than £1.5 billion to support them to go green, cut emissions and become more energy efficient. This funding includes:
o The £1 billion Carbon Capture Utility and Storage Infrastructure Fund
o The £240 million Net Zero Hydrogen Fund
o The £55 million Industrial Fuel switching Fund
o The £20 million Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre
o The £289 million Industrial Energy Transformation Fund
o Up to £66 million as part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
The £289m Fund Industrial Energy Transformation Fund allocated £3.1m of energy efficiency funding to steel plants in its first application window. Support for energy efficiency upgrades helps to reduce the sites energy demand and paves the way for future decarbonisation. This support was broken into (Name, Grant Allocated, Region and Constituency):
Celsa – Energy Efficiency Deployment Project, £3m. Wales, Cardiff South and Penarth.
Firsteel - Energy Efficiency Study, £80k. West Midlands, Walsall South Constituency.
William Cook – Energy Efficiency Study, £38k. Yorkshire and the Humber, Sheffield South East.
Since then, a further five application windows have continued the funding available to the steel industry, details of winners will be released in due course. The final window of the IETF closes in February 2023.
As many of these funds are still running their course, we are unable to provide further detail at present.
Asked by: Bill Esterson (Labour - Sefton Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2023 to Question 118973 on Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries, if he will make an estimate of the potential impact of successful applications made by steel plants to the £1.5 billion fund on levels of carbon emissions from those plants.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
Together with all existing and new support outlined in the Net Zero Strategy we will continue to work together with industry to support the sector’s transition to a competitive, sustainable, and low carbon future. It’s not possible to calculate the impact of these schemes on carbon emissions at this this stage, as many of the projects are still in progress, but we hope to provide a figure in due course.
Asked by: Bill Esterson (Labour - Sefton Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department's policies of job cuts at Liberty Steel.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
The recent announcement of redundancies at Liberty Steel is a commercial decision for the company.
Asked by: Bill Esterson (Labour - Sefton Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2022 to Question 106366 on Rented Housing: Energy, if his Department will make an estimate of number of social houses that will have energy efficiency measures installed in the first six months of the Social Housing Regulation Bill receiving Royal Assent.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) will upgrade a significant amount of the social housing stock currently below EPC C. The Government launched Wave 1 of the SHDF in August 2021. It has awarded around £179m of grant funding for delivery from 2022 into 2023 and will see energy performance improvements to up to 20,000 social homes. The Wave 2.1 competition, which closed in November 2022, will look to allocate up to £800m of grant funding to 2024/25 to support the installation of energy performance measures in social homes in England. Successful projects are likely to be notified in March 2023.
Asked by: Bill Esterson (Labour - Sefton Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 21 December 2022 to Question 102814 on Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund: Sefton Central, which regions in (a) England and (b) Scotland were awarded the most grant funding from the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund in 2021.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The successful projects within the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Demonstrator were announced on 23 March 2021. The SHDF Demonstrator awarded £62m of grant funding, matched with £84m of co-funding from the Local Authorities. The region with the greatest amount of grant funding in England was London, with around £29m of grant funding. The largest grant funding award in Scotland was around £2m worth of grant funding to Aberdeen City Council.
Asked by: Bill Esterson (Labour - Sefton Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 21 December 2022 to Question 95828 on Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund: Sefton Central, whether his Department holds information on the reason that Sefton Council did not apply to the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund does not hold information on reasons why councils did not apply for funding.