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1459164

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Fuel Oil: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy price competitiveness in the domestic heating oil market.
tabling member constituency	Bosworth
tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
uin	157516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government believes it is essential that consumers of domestic fuels get a fair deal. There is an open market for the supply of heating oil in the UK as we believe this provides the best long-term guarantee of competitive prices. Changes in the price of heating oil are mainly driven by those in the underlying price of crude oil. The Department publishes regular price data at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-petroleum-products-monthly-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-petroleum-products-monthly-statistics</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The supply of domestic bulk domestic heating oil is also subject to UK competition law and consumer protection through a regulatory scheme under the Competition and Markets Authority.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/04/2022 11:17:28 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1459165

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Energy Supply: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the level of support provided by energy suppliers to disabled customers through programmes such as benefit entitlement checks and debt write-off.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	157407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>Ofgem require energy suppliers to support disabled customers. This includes protection from disconnection during the winter, and the provision of additional support through a Priority Services Register. Ofgem monitors compliance with their rules protecting vulnerable consumers. Their most recent report is available at: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ofgem.gov.uk%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2F2021-10%2FOfgem%2520Consumer%2520Protection%2520Report%2520Autumn%25202021_Final.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CDouglas.Bush%40beis.gov.uk%7Cb965e49ea7e540dc14f408da22cef131%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637860569440123745%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=jXS8I2%2FeRKEfUY%2F4ltou4EElyYDzniN%2FpEAdKhzcwpk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2021-10/Ofgem%20Consumer%20Protection%20Report%20Autumn%202021_Final.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Warm Home Discount scheme, Ofgem provides a breakdown in their annual reports of the Industry Initiatives supporting fuel poor and vulnerable households through measures that include benefit entitlement checks and debt write-off. The 2020-2021 report is available at: <a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/warm-home-discount-annual-report-scheme-year-10" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/warm-home-discount-annual-report-scheme-year-10</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/04/2022 11:41:59 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1459166

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Fuel Oil: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he is having with industry leaders to help ensure price competitiveness of the domestic heating oil market.
tabling member constituency	Bosworth
tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
uin	157517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State regularly meets with industry leaders and discusses a range of issues. Heating oil issues have been raised in recent meetings with leading industry representatives.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/04/2022 11:18:03 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1459167

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Energy Company Obligation: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the decision to reduce support for disabled people through the Energy Company Obligation scheme, whether an assessment has been made of the impact on the finances of disabled people affected by that change.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	157408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The current Energy Company Obligation scheme, ECO4, has been designed to focus support on households with the lowest incomes and alleviate fuel poverty. This will include households with disabled people on the lowest incomes. The scheme is designed to improve the energy efficiency of homes, through the installation of insulation or heating measures. Households benefitting from improvements could save an average of £300 per annum.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/04/2022 11:39:56 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1459168

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Fuel Poverty: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department’s fuel poverty target numbers take into account the higher average energy costs and usage incurred by disabled people.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	157409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The fuel poverty target is to ensure that as many fuels poor homes as is reasonably practicable achieve a minimum energy efficiency rating of Band C, by 2030. Its aim is to target energy efficiency support to low-income households.</p><p> </p><p>The 2030 target does not include estimates of energy costs including what the energy costs will be for disabled people.</p><p> </p><p>Progress against the target is reported on in the annual fuel poverty statistics, which can be found <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/04/2022 11:16:21 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1459210

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Rural Community Energy Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Rural Community Energy Fund.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	157263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises that community energy groups have a role to play in the Department’s efforts to decarbonise the economy.</p><p>Through the introduction of UK-wide growth funding schemes, such as the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, the Government is enabling local areas to tackle net zero goals in ways that best suit their needs. The Government encourages community energy groups to work closely with their local authority to support the development of community energy projects within these schemes.</p><p>The Government also plans to reintroduce the Community Energy Contact Group to strengthen engagement with the sector.</p><p>There have been a range of government initiatives from different Government Departments that have supported the community energy sector since 2015. This includes grant funding through the £15 million Rural Community Energy Fund (RCEF) from Defra and BEIS, and broader schemes which have been open to community energy groups as well as other organisations, such as the Feed in Tariff scheme, the Towns Fund, and the Community Renewal Fund, where spend is not shown explicitly for community groups.</p><p>RCEF projects are currently in the delivery stage, and we expect to review the scheme in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 157264 157265 question first answered 28/04/2022 11:09:35 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1459211

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Renewable Energy: Cooperatives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to support the development of community owned renewable energy schemes.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	157264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises that community energy groups have a role to play in the Department’s efforts to decarbonise the economy.</p><p>Through the introduction of UK-wide growth funding schemes, such as the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, the Government is enabling local areas to tackle net zero goals in ways that best suit their needs. The Government encourages community energy groups to work closely with their local authority to support the development of community energy projects within these schemes.</p><p>The Government also plans to reintroduce the Community Energy Contact Group to strengthen engagement with the sector.</p><p>There have been a range of government initiatives from different Government Departments that have supported the community energy sector since 2015. This includes grant funding through the £15 million Rural Community Energy Fund (RCEF) from Defra and BEIS, and broader schemes which have been open to community energy groups as well as other organisations, such as the Feed in Tariff scheme, the Towns Fund, and the Community Renewal Fund, where spend is not shown explicitly for community groups.</p><p>RCEF projects are currently in the delivery stage, and we expect to review the scheme in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 157263 157265 question first answered 28/04/2022 11:09:35 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1459212

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Renewable Energy: Cooperatives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department has spent supporting the community-owned renewable energy sector in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	157265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises that community energy groups have a role to play in the Department’s efforts to decarbonise the economy.</p><p>Through the introduction of UK-wide growth funding schemes, such as the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, the Government is enabling local areas to tackle net zero goals in ways that best suit their needs. The Government encourages community energy groups to work closely with their local authority to support the development of community energy projects within these schemes.</p><p>The Government also plans to reintroduce the Community Energy Contact Group to strengthen engagement with the sector.</p><p>There have been a range of government initiatives from different Government Departments that have supported the community energy sector since 2015. This includes grant funding through the £15 million Rural Community Energy Fund (RCEF) from Defra and BEIS, and broader schemes which have been open to community energy groups as well as other organisations, such as the Feed in Tariff scheme, the Towns Fund, and the Community Renewal Fund, where spend is not shown explicitly for community groups.</p><p>RCEF projects are currently in the delivery stage, and we expect to review the scheme in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 157263 157264 question first answered 28/04/2022 11:09:35 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1459243

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Warm Home Discount Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Warm Home Discount, if he will reverse the proposed change to the criteria of eligibility for financial support towards energy bills that would mean those in receipt of disability living allowance, personal independence payment and attendance allowance will no longer be able to claim from the discount scheme.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	157500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>Introducing non-means-tested benefits, such as Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Attendance Allowance (AA), into the eligibility criteria would mean that many households on lower incomes and in deeper fuel poverty would be disadvantaged.</p><p> </p><p>Around 62% of PIP and DLA recipients also receive one of the qualifying means-tested benefits and so would be considered low-income under the Core Group 2 criteria. Those households with high energy costs would be eligible for a rebate. Recipients of AA, a pension-age benefit, who claim Pension Credit Guarantee Credit will, in most cases, qualify for a rebate through Core Group 1.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/04/2022 11:10:37 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1459284

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Coal Authority: Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 6 April 2022 to Question 149218, on Coal Authority: Climate Chang, whether it is his policy that the climate emergency is an exceptional circumstance when considering the powers of the direction.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	157336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the Hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/04/2022 12:08:45 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas