| Heading: |
Data Centres |
| Question ID: |
1810663 |
| UIN: |
58208 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-09 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4107 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Dame Harriett Baldwin
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| Asking Member handle: |
hbaldwin
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@hbaldwin
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Ofgem's readiness criteria for the UK data centre sector on growth in that sector. |
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true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-16 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4998 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Michael Shanks
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| Answering Member handle: |
mgshanks
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@mgshanks
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| Answer text: |
The Government has worked closely with Ofgem and NESO on major reforms to the grid connections process. These reforms are expected to deprioritise up to 500GW of excess generation and storage capacity from the connections queue, freeing up capacity for vi... |
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| Answering body ID: |
215 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero |
| Tweeted: |
true |