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 impact of capacity issues at the national grid on housebuilding in Stockport constituency.

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 20th September 2022 to Question 46191. In addition, Ofgem’s upcoming distribution network price control provides £22.2bn in baseline funding to deliver electricity to homes and meet expected increases in electricity demand. It incentivises networks to invest ahead of demand to future-proof the network. Transmission and distribution network companies are also working together to improve the connection processes and embed best practice. This should help release network capacity and accelerate connection timescales.