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1008461

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date	16/11/2018
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	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, if he will hold meetings with representatives of the oil industry on the recent reduction in the crude oil price that is not reflected in retail fuel prices.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	192105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>Ministers and officials from the Department meet representatives from the oil industry to discuss the United Kingdom downstream oil sector on a regular basis.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes that it is essential that consumers get a fair deal and that a competitive market is the best way to keep prices low. Fuel pricing is subject to UK competition law under the Competition and Markets Authority. Its predecessor, the Office of Fair Trading last looked at fuel prices in 2013. I expect the retail fuel market to be kept under review.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 21/11/2018 17:25:17 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1008462

registered interest
date	16/11/2018
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: Feed-in Tariffs
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 he has made of potential job losses in the renewable energy sector after the closure of the feed-in-tariff scheme in March 2019.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	192120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>An Impact Assessment was published on 19 July alongside the consultation on the closure of the Feed-in Tariffs scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The Impact Assessment and consultation can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/feed-in-tariffs-scheme.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 21/11/2018 17:26:38 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1007769

registered interest
date	15/11/2018
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	Employment: Electronic Tagging
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 he has made of the efficacy of proposals for employers to be able to microchip employees.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	191950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>We have not yet been asked to assess such proposals. However, it is not for Government to say what practices would be effective or beneficial for a particular employer. As long as their actions comply with all relevant legal requirements, an employer is free to decide what employment practices to follow.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 27/11/2018 14:57:33 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst previous answer version 86230 answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1007784

registered interest
date	15/11/2018
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: Housing
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 information he holds on local authority spending plans to increase the energy efficiency of houses over the next (a) five and (b) 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	191854
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>The Home Energy Conservation Act 1995 (HECA) requires local authorities to prepare and publish reports every two years on their plans to achieve improved energy efficiency in their areas. These are not spending plans, but contain actions, policies, initiatives, grants, match funding and other measures offered in the local authority that encourage home energy efficiency improvements and tackle fuel poverty. Local authorities were last required to report in 2017, and their full reports are available on their websites. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy will be issuing guidance to local authorities on the content of their 2019 reports shortly.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Energy Company Obligation local authorities are able to refer low income and vulnerable households for receipt of energy efficiency measures under ‘flexible eligibility’. Obligated energy suppliers can deliver up to 25% of their obligation by installing measures under this mechanism, which could be worth around £560m between now and March 2022.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 22/11/2018 16:27:36 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1007785

registered interest
date	15/11/2018
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
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 information he holds on local authority spending plans to reduce fuel poverty over the next (a) five and 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	191855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The Home Energy Conservation Act 1995 (HECA) requires local authorities to prepare and publish reports every two years on their plans to achieve improved energy efficiency in their areas. These are not spending plans, but contain actions, policies, initiatives, grants, match funding and other measures offered in the local authority that encourage home energy efficiency improvements and tackle fuel poverty. Local authorities were last required to report in 2017, and their full reports are available on their websites. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy will be issuing guidance to local authorities on the content of their 2019 reports shortly.</p><p>Under the Energy Company Obligation local authorities are able to refer low income and vulnerable households for receipt of energy efficiency measures under ‘flexible eligibility’. Obligated energy suppliers can deliver up to 25% of their obligation by installing measures under this mechanism, which could be worth around £560m between now and March 2022.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 23/11/2018 09:26:10 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1007871

registered interest
date	15/11/2018
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 Heat Incentive 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, whether his Department plans to continue the Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive beyond 2020.
tabling member constituency	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
tabling member printed	Bill Grant
uin	191978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>Renewable heat is currently supported under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). The RHI has funding agreed out to 2021. Beyond this, the Department is developing policy proposals for a clear framework to phase out high carbon fossil fuels for domestic and non-domestic buildings off the gas grid in the 2020s.</p><p> </p><p>From 19 March to 11 June 2018 we held a public Call for Evidence as a first step in developing this policy framework. The Department aims to publish a response to the Call for Evidence in due course.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 191979 question first answered 21/11/2018 17:20:48 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4605 label Biography information for Bill Grant

1007872

registered interest
date	15/11/2018
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: Heating
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 has assessed the potential merits of introducing a financial incentive for processes which change timber into renewable heat products.
tabling member constituency	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
tabling member printed	Bill Grant
uin	191979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>Renewable heat is currently supported under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). The RHI has funding agreed out to 2021. Beyond this, the Department is developing policy proposals for a clear framework to phase out high carbon fossil fuels for domestic and non-domestic buildings off the gas grid in the 2020s.</p><p> </p><p>From 19 March to 11 June 2018 we held a public Call for Evidence as a first step in developing this policy framework. The Department aims to publish a response to the Call for Evidence in due course.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 191978 question first answered 21/11/2018 17:20:48 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4605 label Biography information for Bill Grant

1007873

registered interest
date	15/11/2018
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	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, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the (a) IPCC’s report on global warming of 1.5 degrees and (b) the outlined scenarios in that report of (i) 1C, (ii) 1.5C and (iii) 2C warming.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	191964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>The IPCC report makes clear the significant threat posed by climate change. The Government has acted quickly in response to the report by commissioning our independent experts, the Committee on Climate Change, to provide their advice on the implications of the Paris Agreement for the UK’s long-term emissions reduction targets, including on setting a net zero target. We will consider their advice carefully when it is received.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 21/11/2018 17:09:47 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1007874

registered interest
date	15/11/2018
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	Carbon Capture and Storage
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 IPCC's report of October 2018 entitled Global Warming of 1.5°C, what plans his Department has to (a) encourage and (b) implement the use of (i) carbon capture and (ii) carbon removal technologies.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	191965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting the development of carbon capture usage &amp; storage (CCUS) in the UK and has set an ambition for the UK to have the option to deploy CCUS at scale during the 2030s, subject to the costs coming down sufficiently. To support this ambition, we are investing £100 million to March 2021 on industrial energy and CCUS innovation and will publish a CCUS Action Plan to set out the next steps in progressing CCUS in the UK.</p><p>The Government’s strategic approach to greenhouse gas removals (GGRs), as set out in the Clean Growth Strategy, has two main elements. Firstly, a Government programme of research and development, which includes working with the Research Councils on a £8.6 million GGR research programme launched in April 2017. We also invited the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering to undertake a review of the science relating to GGRs; this was published in September 2018. Secondly, work to consider the scope for removing barriers and strengthening incentives to support the deployment of GGRs, to position the UK at the leading edge of GGR development. In addition, we will develop a new network of English forests to help reach 12 per cent woodland cover in England by 2060.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 22/11/2018 16:29:31 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1007875

registered interest
date	15/11/2018
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
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 estimate his Department has made of the proportion of the UK’s energy supply that came from green sources in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	191966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>Renewable energy sources are biomass, wind, solar photovoltaics, hydro, wave and shoreline, active solar, heat pumps, and deep geothermal[1].</p><p>The proportion of energy supply from these renewable sources between 2010 and 2017 can be found online:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/743653/Aggregated_Energy_Balances_showing_proportion_of_renewables.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/743653/Aggregated_Energy_Balances_showing_proportion_of_renewables.xlsx</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 21/11/2018 17:10:45 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes