Asked by: Hywel Williams (Plaid Cymru - Arfon)
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 made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the Smart Export Guarantee in incentivising small-scale renewable energy generation, in comparison with the Feed-In-Tariff scheme.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The recently published Ofgem Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) annual report highlighted a significant increase in the number of installations registering for a SEG tariff (34,020 installations compared to 4,593 from Year 1). The market continues to offer a range of SEG tariffs offering different rates for exported electricity, with some rates comparable to those which were provided in the latter stages of the Feed In Tariff (FIT) scheme.
Asked by: Hywel Williams (Plaid Cymru - Arfon)
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 oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State to the debate on Employment Law: Devolution to Scotland on 6 September 2022, Official Report, column 51WH, whether his Department has set targets for the use of the shared parental leave scheme by parents.
Answered by Dean Russell
In the original Impact Assessment before SPL was introduced, we estimated take-up to be in the range of 2% to 8%. We have not updated these estimates. The evaluation of the Shared Parental Leave (SPL) and Pay scheme, which we will publish in due course, will include an up-to-date estimate of take-up.
Asked by: Hywel Williams (Plaid Cymru - Arfon)
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 9 February 2021 to Question 146754 on Conditions of Employment: Parents, when he plans to publish the 2019 Maternity and Paternity Rights Survey.
Answered by Dean Russell
As part of the evaluation of the Shared Parental Leave (SPL) and Pay scheme we have undertaken large, representative, surveys of employers and parents and a qualitative study of parents who have taken SPL.
The reports and data from all of the research we have commissioned – including the Maternity and Paternity Rights Survey – will be published in due course, alongside the evaluation report itself.
Asked by: Hywel Williams (Plaid Cymru - Arfon)
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 an assessment of the potential merits of setting standards for the (a) brightness and (b) colour temperature of lighting; if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of such standards on light pollution; and whether he has had recent discussions with (i) manufacturers, (ii) distributors and (iii) installers of lighting on their role in reducing light pollution.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The reduction of light pollution is not a matter for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.