Michael Shanks

69173 • Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with (a) Ofgem and (b) the Minister for the Cabinet Office on the level of customer bills, in the context of the development of the RIIO GD3 interim settlement for the gas network.

69174 • Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he had with Ofgem prior to the RIIO GD3 interim settlement for the gas network.

68467 • Solar Power: Buckinghamshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the resilience of energy storage infrastructure co-located with solar energy developments in Buckinghamshire.

68378 • Offshore Industry: Marine Environment

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, for what reason blue carbon habitats are not currently included in environmental impact assessments for offshore developments.

68522 • Wind Power: Dumfries and Galloway

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential impact of the exclusion zone on the development of wind farms around the Eskdalemuir Seismic Array.

68663 • Solar Power: Parking

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department plans to introduce requirements for car parking companies to install solar canopies on large parking lots.

68555 • Wind Power: Dumfries and Galloway

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much of the onshore wind pipeline in the Eskdalemuir consultation zone his Department plans to see unlocked in the forthcoming solution to onshore wind development around the Seismic Array.

68847 • Solar Power: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure consistency in his planning decisions on applications for solar farm with proposed generating capacity above 50 MW.

68848 • Solar Power: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what comparative assessment he has made of the average time taken for planning decisions for solar farm applications in (a) Buckinghamshire and (b) nationally.

68914 • Electricity Generation: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has considered the potential merits of applying the same land access arrangements for distribution network operators as currently apply for other utilities.

68817 • Fossil Fuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to end the (a) exploration, (b) extraction, (c) export and (d) import of fossil fuels by the United Kingdom.

67937 • Photovoltaics: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of a coordinated shutdown of photovoltaic inverters manufactured by companies headquartered in China on UK power grid stability.

67938 • Electricity: Foreign Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of prohibitions under the Electricity Act 1989 of the use of high-risk foreign vendors in licensed electricity infrastructure on energy security.

67939 • Photovoltaics

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure that firmware updates to photovoltaic inverters connected to the UK grid cannot be used as a vector for cyber or physical disruption.

67940 • Energy: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential for energy usage data collected by smart grid components to be exploited for (a) strategic and (b) military intelligence purposes by foreign state actors.

67941 • Electricity: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his Department’s planned timeline is for reviewing the electricity licensing regime to address the use of equipment from high-risk foreign vendors.

67942 • Photovoltaics: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to (a) mitigate the effects of market dumping of and (b) reduce strategic dependency on imported photovoltaic inverters from China.

67884 • Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Great British Energy on reducing household energy bills.

68056 • Sunnica Energy Farm

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the (a) transparency and (b) accuracy of the information provided to the Examining Authority by (i) Sunnica and (ii) its related UK registered companies during the trading period for the 12 months ending 30 April 2024.

68057 • Sunnica Energy Farm

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has had discussions with Sumando Ltd on the nine-month delay in submitting its 30 April 2023 financial statements to Companies House in relation to the development consent decision for Sunnica.