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1143792

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	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	Mineworkers' Pension 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, if she will publish the individual benefits paid to Mineworkers' Pension Scheme members by the Government from surplus receipts.
	tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
	tabling member printed	Nick Smith
	uin	285049
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 09/09/2019 16:50:08 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1128609

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2019
	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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Iron and Steel
	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 he has made of the proportion of UK steel and steel products procured by his Department in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
	tabling member printed	Nick Smith
	uin	257727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>For the first time this year the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy published information from Government departments and their arm’s-length bodies on the value and origin of the steel procured over the financial year 2017/18, where this information was available. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy did not directly procure any steel, from the UK or overseas, in this period for major projects.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work closely with departments and their arm’s-length bodies to improve awareness of the steel procurement guidance and the quality of the information that they are able to provide us on the steel procured for their major projects.</p><p> </p><p>In publishing this data and the annual Steel Pipeline, we are supporting the industry to maximise its potential for growth, enabling steel businesses to plan for future demand, and ultimately increase the amount of UK steel used in both public and private UK projects. The Steel Pipeline shows how the government plans to use over 3 million tonnes of steel – worth around £500 million – over the next decade, on infrastructure projects such as the construction of Hinkley Point C and the maintenance and upgrading of the UK’s motorway network.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 06/06/2019 09:49:04 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

781353

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2017
	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	Solar Power: Finance
	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 equity of the fiscal regime for rooftop solar power compared with those for other energy generation technologies.
	tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
	tabling member printed	Nick Smith
	uin	110587
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The UK has applied a reduced, 5% VAT rate on 11 different types of energy saving materials, including solar panels, since 2001. That remains in place. The Government is still considering the responses to the consultation on energy saving materials and will issue a response to that consultation shortly.</p><p> </p><p>The business rate treatment for solar panels is consistent with the treatment for other power generating plant and machinery. Plant and machinery which is used to provide power to the property is rateable, while these items are not rateable if the power is being wholly or mainly sold to other consumers. Changing the law in this instance would mean giving preferential treatment to the solar sector.</p><p> </p><p>The treatment of capital allowances for solar panels is also consistent with the treatment for other power generating technologies.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 06/11/2017 14:44:04 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

781475

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2017
	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	Solar Power
	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 his Department's policy is on solar power; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
	tabling member printed	Nick Smith
	uin	110588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>Solar power is a UK success story, with rapid deployment over the last 7 years. Latest figures indicate that we now have over 12.5GW of solar capacity installed in the UK, enough to power over 2.7 million homes and exceeding our historic projections.</p><p> </p><p>Support for solar comes directly from people's bills, so when costs come down, so should support. Therefore we have taken steps to control the costs of support schemes and put solar on a path to delivering without subsidy. We expect subsidy-free solar to be an increasingly attractive option. Some of the UK’s largest solar developers have said that they will be installing and connecting subsidy-free sites in 2017.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 06/11/2017 14:20:15 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

753731

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	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: Blaenau Gwent
	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 estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of constituents in Blaenau Gwent constituency who will be affected by the Government's proposal to safeguard customers on the poorest energy value tariff.
	tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
	tabling member printed	Nick Smith
	uin	6001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>Ofgem is considering options to protect vulnerable consumers and has yet to announce a formal proposal. Alongside this Ofgem has announced a package of measures to help consumers move away from poor value tariffs.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 27/07/2017 14:00:18 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith