Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Scottish Government Planning Guidance - Local living and 20 minute neighbourhoodsFound: Improving the energy efficiency of existing buildings reduces the emissions created by them now and into
Mentions:
1: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Lab - Life peer) This was the last time the industry benefited from the influence of a guiding mind and from the energy - Speech Link
2: Viscount Hanworth (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) vehicles.The modest size of the total emissions coming directly from the rail network is a testimony to its energy - Speech Link
3: Baroness Randerson (LD - Life peer) The Centre for Cities estimates that that costs our economy £23 billion a year. - Speech Link
4: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) Since Covid, there has been a vast increase in costs and a real decline in quality of service. - Speech Link
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1: Baroness Smith of Llanfaes (PC - Life peer) We see high debts and housing costs, low wages and unstable work. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) providing safe, spacious, bright apartments with a very high level of building performance and a renewable energy - Speech Link
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1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Government.We have a plan—they might not like it, but we do—to bring down waiting lists, to deliver lower energy - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) have filled up the business for Westminster Hall on Tuesdays until the Whitsun recess with debates on: costs - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) Gentleman spells out with passion in his foreword, at the moment, we are“missing out on the skills and energy - Speech Link
2: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) point about career progression for autistic people.Access to Work continues to provide grants for extra costs - Speech Link
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1: Hyslop, Fiona (SNP - Linlithgow) The programme will contain the actual costs of completing this important road safety initiative.I would - Speech Link
2: Hyslop, Fiona (SNP - Linlithgow) Once we have obtained detailed costs from local authorities through the delivery sub-group, we will consider - Speech Link
3: Greer, Ross (Green - West Scotland) Thermo Fisher plans to move the jobs overseas to cut costs and maximise profits. - Speech Link
4: Martin, Gillian (SNP - Aberdeenshire East) in networks in Scotland.Expansion of the electricity grid will be crucial in enabling us to deliver energy - Speech Link
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1: Kerr, Liam (Con - North East Scotland) stations are“on an existing line and would be serviced using existing services and therefore operational costs - Speech Link
2: Hyslop, Fiona (SNP - Linlithgow) The member was at the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee when Màiri McAllan talked about our need - Speech Link
Found: insert the following new Clause— “Enforcement of duties relating to heat networks under the Energy
Asked by: Alistair Strathern (Labour - Mid Bedfordshire)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department provides financial support to (a) schools, (b) academy trusts and (c) local authorities for the cost of (i) overheads and (ii) maintenance required under the terms of private finance initiative contracts.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The Mid Bedfordshire Upper Schools PFI contract covers two schools and was signed on 22nd December 2003.
The department’s private finance initiative (PFI) Revenue Support Grant (RSG) funding for the Mid Bedfordshire Upper Schools Project is paid to the Local Authority, Central Bedfordshire Council, rather than directly to schools. No payments are made by the department to Bedfordshire Schools Trust Ltd in relation to the Mid Bedfordshire Upper Schools PFI contract. The department has paid PFI RSG funding of £1,886,314 for each of the last ten years from 2014/15 to 2023/24 to Central Bedfordshire Council. All payments under Mid Bedfordshire Schools PFI Project to Bedfordshire Schools Trust Ltd are made by Central Bedfordshire Council.
The department supports local authorities that entered schools PFI contracts by providing Revenue Support Grant funding for the term of the PFI contract, which is normally 25 years. Central Bedfordshire Council, as the contracting party to Mid Bedfordshire Upper Schools Project PFI agreement, combines RSG grant funding from the department, plus additional funds from their own resources, to pay the PFI unitary charge to the contractor. The schools within each PFI contract ordinarily contribute towards the cost of the facilities. This applies equally to maintained schools and to academies.
The department also supports schools that have unavoidable extra premises costs related to their PFI contracts through the ‘PFI factor’ in the schools national funding formula (NFF). This funding is paid out to local authorities through the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) and is then allocated to schools by local authorities through their own local formulae.
The PFI factor only covers unavoidable extra premises costs, primarily related to the building itself. Costs which all schools face, such as facilities management and energy costs should be covered by the funding schools receive from the other formula factors in their local authority’s funding formula.
Asked by: Kerry McCarthy (Labour - Bristol East)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 27 March 2024 to Question 19567 on Energy: Payments, what the cost of (a) curtailing generation of renewable energy and (b) increasing generation of gas power was in 2023.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
National Grid ESO manages network constraints. In 2023, constraint costs were £1.4bn and the volume of balancing services used to manage constraints was around 12TWh. Data are not available on exact timing of curtailment and the split of costs between renewable and gas generators in 2023.
The Government is working with Ofgem and network companies to accelerate network delivery in line with the Winser recommendations and is halving the construction time of new transmission infrastructure from 14 years to 7, delivering the grid capacity needed to alleviate network constraints. The Review of Electricity Market Arrangements consultation considers several options which could help to reduce constraint costs, including locational pricing, electricity storage deployment and establishing constraints markets.