Dr Alan Whitehead

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of different electricity generation technologies on archaeological sites; and whether she has plans to ensure that such f...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department has made an assessment of the impact of trial trenching requirements on (a) the delivery of new low-carbon generation projects and (b) associated costs for renewable en...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many people have started on the (a) low carbon heating technician apprenticeship scheme, (b) Home Decarbonisation Skills Training Scheme and (c) training funded by the Heat Training Grant...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many people have started on the (a) low carbon heating technician apprenticeship scheme, (b) Home Decarbonisation Skills Training Scheme and (c) training funded by the Heat Training Grant...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the liquidity of the electricity wholesale market.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of restoring the market making obligation on major energy suppliers to improve liquidity in the wholesale electrici...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether the Energy Emergencies Committee has put forward proposals for an outcomes-focused physical network resilience standard.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department has made an assessment of the impact of not proceeding with changes to minimum energy efficiency standards in the private rented sector on the Government’s 15% energy c...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether the draft action plan produced by the energy efficiency taskforce included a recommendation to introduce higher minimum energy efficiency standards for the private rented sector.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department consulted the Energy Efficiency Taskforce on the decision to introduce new minimum energy efficiency standards for the private rented sector before the taskforce was di...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact on the UK’s net zero and power decarbonisation targets of the decision to lower minimum market-wide smart coverage projec...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the smart meter rollout beyond 2025.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero what assessment she has made of the adequacy of progress on the Smart Meter Targets Framework.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether it remains his policy for the hydrogen economy to develop large cluster networks, large scale storage and integration with gas networks by 2028-2030 as set out in the UK Hydrogen Stra...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2023 to Questions 191725, 191726 and 191727 on Hydrogen, what the additional considerations associated with transmission level blending are.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an estimate of the number of households that will require an electricity upgrade by the Distribution Network Operators to enable the electrification of heat and transport.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 13 June to Question 188651 on Electricity: Storage and with reference to the Government response to the Call for Evidence on large-scale, long-duration electricity s...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of a cap and floor mechanism as an option to enable investment in large-scale, long-duration electricity storage.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make a comparative assessment of the Government making (a) fixed payments to operators of Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage based on how much CO2 is removed from the atmosp...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when he plans to announce his policy on blending hydrogen into the gas transmission network.