Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to ensure grid infrastructure is developed to support further deployment of floating offshore wind.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Network regulation, including ensuring security of supply, is a matter for Ofgem, the independent energy regulator. Ofgem uses the RIIO price control framework to incentivise electricity network companies to invest efficiently in the grid – providing a safe, secure and reliable network for all consumers at the lowest possible cost.
As part of the BEIS-led Offshore Transmission Network Review, National Grid Electricity System Operator will shortly publish a Holistic Network Design (HND) which brings together the coordinated planning of wider onshore network reinforcements and the connections for around 23GW of offshore wind, including over 3GW of floating wind.
The objective of the OTNR is to ensure that the transmission connections for offshore wind generation are delivered in the most appropriate way, considering the increased ambition for offshore wind to help achieve net zero. This will be done with a view to finding the appropriate balance between environmental, social and economic costs.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen 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 post legislative reviews (a) their Department or (b) their predecessor Department has undertaken on (i) primary and (ii) secondary legislation in each of the last five years.
Answered by George Freeman
In the last five years, the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy have undertaken the following Post Implementation Reviews (PIR) on primary and secondary legislation.
Year | Total PIRs | Primary PIRs | Secondary PIRs |
2017 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
2018 | 10 | 2 | 8 |
2019 | 6 | 1 | 5 |
2020 | 20 | 3 | 17 |
2021 | 16 | 0 | 16 |
Totals | 57 | 6 | 51 |
Notes:
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen 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 and what proportion of the (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation sponsored by (i) their Department or (ii) their predecessor Department has undergone a post legislative review in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by George Freeman
The number, and proportion, of post legislative reviews the Department has undertaken on primary and secondary legislation in each of the last ten years is not held within the Department. However, the number of PIRs undertaken in the last five years is available as follows.
The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy have undertaken the following Post Implementation Reviews (PIR) on primary and secondary legislation.
Year | Total PIRs | Primary PIRs | Secondary PIRs |
2017 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
2018 | 10 | 2 | 8 |
2019 | 6 | 1 | 5 |
2020 | 20 | 3 | 17 |
2021 | 16 | 0 | 16 |
Totals | 57 | 6 | 51 |
Notes:
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen 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 pieces of (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation their Department has sponsored in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by George Freeman
The information on primary legislation is only held for internal administrative reasons and may not be exhaustive, for example, due to machinery of government changes to departmental structure in the past decade.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) was founded in 2016, through a merger between the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). The information for primary legislation therefore includes predecessor departments. Due to the nature of primary legislation spanning calendar years, information has been provided per Parliamentary Session.
Parliamentary Session | Departmental sponsored Government Bills |
2021 - 2022 Session | 6 |
2019 - 2021 Session | 4 |
2017 - 2019 Session | 4 |
2016 - 2017 Session | 1 |
2015 - 2016 Session | 3 |
2014 - 2015 Session | 2 |
2013 - 2014 Session | 2 |
2012 - 2013 Session | 2 |
2010 - 2012 Session | 2 |
The number of pieces of secondary legislation sponsored by Government departments could be calculated utilising publicly available information. This information is not held within the Department.