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1002723

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Internet
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Government departments are using a protective domain name system.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	188906
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>There are several commercial Protective DNS services available alongside the one provided by the NCSC. We do not hold the figure on how many Departments use these commercial providers and can only provide information for those using the NCSC offer. Of the 45 ministerial and non-ministerial departments there are 25 using, or are in the process of adopting the NCSC service. GSG and NCSC are actively working with Departments to adopt the use of the PDNS service.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 12/11/2018 17:28:37 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1001980

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	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	Fracking: Lancashire
	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 comparative assessment his Department has made of geological activity in Fylde (a) since the commencement of exploratory drilling at the Preston New Road Shale Gas site and (b) prior to such drilling.
	tabling member constituency	Fylde
	tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
	uin	188137
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>This is publicly available information:</p><p><a href="https://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/groundwater/shaleGas/monitoring/lancashire.html" target="_blank">https://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/groundwater/shaleGas/monitoring/lancashire.html</a>.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/11/2018 17:43:10 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

1002093

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	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, pursuant to Answer of 1 November 2018 to Question 182295 on Renewable energy: feed-in tariffs, what estimate he has made of the additional cost to consumer bills from (a) photovoltaic and (b) non-photovoltaic installations through the export tariff of the feed-in-tariff in the financial year 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	uin	188176
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>Figures are not yet available for 2017/18, and are not split by technology. Total deemed export payments under the Feed-in Tariff scheme in 2016/17 were £48,790,253.</p><p> </p><p>More information can be found in Ofgem’s annual reports on the FIT scheme: <a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/feed-tariff-fit-annual-report-2016-17" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/feed-tariff-fit-annual-report-2016-17</a>.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/11/2018 17:40:58 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1002149

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	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 his Department has made of the effect of climate change on GDP in the next four decades.
	tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
	tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
	uin	188092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The 2007 Stern Review concluded that the impacts of unmitigated climate change could be equivalent to losing 5-20% of global GDP, with the higher range accounting for a wide range of impacts and risks. A range of scientific evidence also makes clear that the risks and impacts could be severe, with some potentially catastrophic. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report and 1.5°C Special Report show that human-caused climate change has had widespread impacts on human and natural systems, for example, heatwaves are longer, hotter, and more frequent, and the sea-level is rising at a rate of 2.6 – 2.9 millimetres per year.</p><p> </p><p>The UK’s 2017 Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) finds that climate change poses multiple risks to the UK. Communities, businesses and infrastructure will be affected by flooding and coastal change, domestic and international food production and trade could be impacted, and our natural capital (including ecosystems, soils and biodiversity) will be at risk. People’s health, wellbeing and productivity will be at risk from high temperatures, and people, animals and plants will be at risk from new and emerging pests and diseases. The CCRA also identified that there may be economic opportunities for UK business from an increase in global demand for adaptation-related goods and services like engineering and insurance.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/11/2018 17:44:04 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1002562

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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: Private Rented 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, how many private rented homes require additional energy efficiency installations costing between £2,500 and £3,500 in each (a) region and (b) council authority area.
	tabling member constituency	Wakefield
	tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
	uin	188781
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>Analysis of private rented housing data indicates that approximately 72,000 properties will receive packages of measures costing between £2,500 and £3,500 under amended Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard Regulations. On average, tenants benefitting from improvements under these regulations will see their energy costs fall by £180 per year.</p><p> </p><p>Due of the comparatively small sample size used to model those private rented sector properties with F and G energy efficiency ratings, we are unable to reliably break the above subset of properties down by region or council authority area.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/11/2018 17:39:47 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

1002593

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	Wind 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 proportion of UK energy consumption is provided by (a) onshore and (b) offshore wind farms.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	188741
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>In 2017, the proportion of UK electricity demand<sup> (1)</sup> met by (a) onshore wind was 8.2 per cent and (b) by offshore wind was 5.9 per cent<sup> (2)</sup>.</p><p> </p><p><sup>(1) </sup>UK electricity demand was met by UK electricity generation and net imports.</p><p><sup>(2) </sup>Data is taken from the Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) 2018 from tables DUKES 5.1 for demand and DUKES 6.4 for wind generation: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-chapter-5-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-chapter-5-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/renewable-sources-of-energy-chapter-6-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/renewable-sources-of-energy-chapter-6-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/11/2018 17:38:22 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1002656

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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: EU Law
	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 he has plans to transpose the provisions of the EU Renewable Energy Directive II into UK law when the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	188863
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>Leaving the EU will not affect the UK's commitment to domestic and international efforts to tackle climate change. Renewable technologies now form a very significant part of the UK’s energy mix and will continue to do so into the future. Renewable energy will have a key role to play in delivering our ambitious Clean Growth Strategy.</p><p>The UK will consider the extent of our longer term cooperation with the EU on renewable energy as part of the wider EU Exit negotiations on our future energy partnership.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/11/2018 17:37:12 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

997099

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2018
	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: Meters
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the reported conclusion by the Advertising Standards Authority that energy companies will pass on the costs of smart meters to customers through higher bills.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL11103
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>Consumers pay for their smart metering service as part of their energy bill, as they do for their traditional metering service.</p><p> </p><p>Smart meters will deliver reductions to consumers’ energy bills. It is estimated that smart meters will take £300m off consumers’ bills in 2020, rising to more than £1.2bn per year by 2030 – an average annual saving of £47 per household.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 12/11/2018 17:29:40 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

999149

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2018
	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	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, pursuant to the Answer of 25 July 2018 to Question 164474 on the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme, what discussions his Department has had with the trustees of that scheme; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Mansfield
	tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
	uin	186447
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>Those discussions are ongoing. I would be happy to update my hon. Friend once a conclusion has been reached.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/11/2018 17:31:47 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

999232

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2018
	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	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 he will publish the annual surpluses to Government from the Mineworkers Pension Fund in each year since 1994.
	tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
	tabling member printed	John Mann
	uin	186222
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The sums the Government has received each year from its share of scheme surpluses are set out below. There were no receipts before 1998. Surplus shares are calculated at three-yearly valuations and paid in ten annual instalments. More information is available in a <a href="https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN01189#fullreport" target="_blank">House of Commons Research Briefing</a>. The Government guarantee has enabled an investment strategy that has resulted in scheme members receiving payments 33% higher than they would have been if they received only their actual earned pension up to privatisation.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year[1]</p></td><td><p>Share of surplus (£m)</p></td><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Share of surplus (£m)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1998</p></td><td><p>113</p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>146</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1999</p></td><td><p>113</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>145</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000</p></td><td><p>113</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>331</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001</p></td><td><p>196</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002</p></td><td><p>196</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003</p></td><td><p>196</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004</p></td><td><p>175</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>92.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>175</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>113.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>175</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>51</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>327</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>51</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>142.4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>[1] MPS Scheme years run from 1 October to 30 September. Payments are generally made on 1 October.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/11/2018 17:36:04 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann