Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
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 with funding through the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Demonstrator in Warrington North constituency as of 31 October 2022.
Answered by Graham Stuart
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.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
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 ECO scheme measures installed in Warrington North constituency as of 31 October 2022.
Answered by Graham Stuart
BEIS publishes information on the number of households in receipt of ECO measures by Parliamentary Constituency in Table 4.5 accompanying the latest Household Energy Efficiency Statistics release.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
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 were completed through the Green Deal in Warrington North constituency as of 31 October 2022.
Answered by Graham Stuart
BEIS estimates that in Warrington North constituency there have been no Green Deal projects completed (all measures installed and paid off). Between one and five projects are live (all measures installed but not yet paid off). To manage the risk of revealing personal or commercial data, the Government's 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.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
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 the Green Homes Grant supported in Warrington North constituency.
Answered by Graham Stuart
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.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the average level of funding was to people who made successful applications to the Green Homes Grant scheme in Warrington North constituency since the introduction of that scheme.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The average government contribution per successful household application through the Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme in Warrington North was £5,347 for the main scheme, and £6,853 for the low-income scheme. These figures use the same data as the latest release.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
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 with funding through the Local Authority Delivery Scheme in Warrington North constituency as of 31 October 2022.
Answered by Graham Stuart
There were 128 homes retrofitted in Warrington through the Local Authority Delivery Scheme. This data is available in Table 13 of the December HULA Statistics release.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
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 Warrington North constituency as of 31 October 2022.
Answered by Graham Stuart
Information on the number of homes retrofitted by parliamentary constituency through the Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme can be found in Table 4.4 accompanying the latest release.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
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 to the Green Homes Grant voucher scheme were successful in Warrington North constituency since the introduction of that scheme.
Answered by Graham Stuart
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.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the performance of Royal Mail since its privatisation.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Royal Mail is accountable to Ofcom, as the independent regulator for the postal sector, for its performance against its universal service obligations. Ofcom continues to monitor Royal Mail’s performance to ensure it is providing the best service it can to customers, and publishes an annual report summarising its monitoring programme on its website:
www.ofcom.org.uk/postal-services/information-for-the-postal-industry/monitoring_reports.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to extend the Energy Bill Relief Scheme beyond April 2023 for hospitality businesses; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Graham Stuart
HM Treasury is currently conducting a review of the Energy Bill Relief Scheme and evidence from the hospitality sector is included in that. However, the Government cannot confirm which sectors will receive further support after 31st March 2023 until the end of the review, which will report by the end of the year 2022.