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Written Question
Green Deal Scheme: Warwick and Leamington
Thursday 22nd December 2022

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 Green Deal projects are classified as live in Warwick and Leamington constituency.

Answered by Graham Stuart

BEIS estimates that in Warwick and Leamington constituency, 11 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
Green Deal Scheme: Warwick and Leamington
Thursday 22nd December 2022

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 have been completed in Warwick and Leamington constituency through the Green Deal as of 24 November 2022.

Answered by Graham Stuart

BEIS estimates that in Warwick and Leamington constituency, 11 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
Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund: Warwick and Leamington
Tuesday 13th December 2022

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 much has been spent on the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund in the Warwick & Leamington constituency as of 24 November 2022.

Answered by Graham Stuart

This parliament, the Government has committed to investing £6.6bn in energy efficiency, the Autumn Statement announced an additional £6bn from 2025-2028.

The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Demonstrator awarded £62m of grant funding, delivering from 2021 into 2022. Data is held on local authority-led projects rather than at a constituency level. The SHDF Wave 2.1 competition will allocate up to £800m of grant funding, with successful projects notified around March 2023.


Written Question
Housing: Warwick and Leamington
Tuesday 13th December 2022

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 in the Warwick & Leamington constituency had heat pumps installed as of 31 October 2022.

Answered by Graham Stuart

The Microgeneration Certification Scheme Installations Database shows that as of 31 October 2022, 148 heat pump installations were registered in the Warwick & Leamington constituency.

The database does not include all heat pump installations, for example, those installed without Government funding support, such as in new buildings.


Written Question
Housing: Warwick and Leamington
Tuesday 13th December 2022

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 in the Warwick & Leamington constituency had solar power panels installed as of 31 October 2022.

Answered by Graham Stuart

At the end of October 2022, there were 1761 domestic installations of solar panels recorded in Warwick and Leamington constituency.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Nov 2022
Energy Security

"I welcome the Secretary of State’s quote from Shakespeare, but if the bard were alive today, he would be writing either a comedy about the Government or a tragedy about their energy strategy. We have houses in my constituency being built with insufficient insulation and no solar panels, or solar …..."
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Written Question
Energy: Local Government
Friday 25th November 2022

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 local authorities have a Local Area Energy Plan; and what steps his Department is taking to help local authorities produce a Local Area Energy Plan.

Answered by Graham Stuart

The Government is considering the role of Local Area Energy Planning (LAEP) in delivering Net Zero, including working closely with Ofgem as part of its ongoing governance review into local energy institutions. Government has supported the development of LAEP through Innovate UK's Prospering from the Energy Revolution Programme.

The Government has not undertaken an assessment of the number of local authorities with a Local Area Energy Plan.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 22 Sep 2022
Energy Prices: Support for Business

"For the last 12 years, Conservative Governments have had the chance to act on energy supply and infrastructure. Manufacturing businesses around the country have been saying to me that they are facing a 59% premium against the EU average for electricity. Why did Governments not act sooner, certainly before this …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 22 Sep 2022
Shale Gas Extraction

"The public will see this decision as a deceit. There is no economic price advantage to it, as we have heard, while it is damaging to the environment. The claim that the public will have some say in consenting to the proposals will ring hollow in my community, where the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Sep 2022
Energy Update

"Like many Members, I already have a great number of distressed constituents getting in touch with me desperate for some sort of help. Today, though, I want to focus my comments more specifically on businesses, which we have been hearing about from Members around the Chamber. Last Thursday I met …..."
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