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1124689

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2019
	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	Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme: 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 assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of extending Solar Thermal applications allowed under the Renewable Heat Incentive to both domestic hot water systems and domestic heating systems at the same time.
	tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
	tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
	uin	250768
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department considered whether solar thermal should be allowed for space heating when the scheme was being designed in 2012/2013. The decision to restrict support to domestic hot water only solar thermal systems for the domestic RHI was based on the following considerations:</p><ul><li>At the time that we made our decision, market intelligence showed that only a small minority of solar thermal systems were designed to provide space heating and there was limited performance data.</li><li>Supporting solar thermal for space heating would not present good value for money, as the RHI is taxpayer-funded – this is because solar thermal systems are only capable of meeting a small portion of a house’s heat demand, and are not as cost-effective in space heating when compared to other technologies.</li></ul><p>The Government currently has no plans to review its position on support for solar thermal on the RHI.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/05/2019 16:51:44 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1124606

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2019
	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	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 Scope’s report Disability Price Tag 2019, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the Warm Home Discount in line with recent trends in the price of energy.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	250514
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>In 2018 we consulted on the level of the Warm Home Discount rebate and decided to maintain the current level in order to provide it to the maximum number of households. Since then, the Government has also taken action to protect 11 million households with the introduction of the energy price cap.</p><p> </p><p>Disabled people on means-tested benefits are eligible under the Broader Group of the Warm Home Discount. The Government is considering how to improve the fuel poverty targeting of the scheme and will be consulting on any proposed changes in due course.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 250515 question first answered 09/05/2019 07:49:42 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1124607

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2019
	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	Warm Home Discount Scheme: 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 Scope’s report Disability Price Tag 2019, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of widening the core eligibility criteria for the Warm Home Discount to include disabled people who are both in and out of work.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	250515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>In 2018 we consulted on the level of the Warm Home Discount rebate and decided to maintain the current level in order to provide it to the maximum number of households. Since then, the Government has also taken action to protect 11 million households with the introduction of the energy price cap.</p><p> </p><p>Disabled people on means-tested benefits are eligible under the Broader Group of the Warm Home Discount. The Government is considering how to improve the fuel poverty targeting of the scheme and will be consulting on any proposed changes in due course.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 250514 question first answered 09/05/2019 07:49:42 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1124749

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2019
	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	Carbon Capture and Storage: Technology
	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 potential effect on the environment of carbon capture technology.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	910792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government believes that carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) has the potential to play an important role in meeting the UK’s climate targets. CCUS can add value to the economy and help tackle hard to decarbonise sectors.</p><p> </p><p>Our CCUS Action Plan is designed to progress CCUS in the UK, including enabling the UK’s first CCUS facility to be operational from the mid-2020s. CCUS is also likely to play an important role in achieving our Industrial Clusters Mission, creating the world’s first net-zero industrial cluster by 2040.</p><p> </p><p>In progressing CCUS, the UK has already established a robust regulatory framework for CCUS, with regulations applying to licensing, environmental inspection and CO<sub>2</sub> storage, operation and monitoring activities. This means that any CCUS project will need to comply with a rigorous health and safety assessment and require permits and approval from relevant environment agencies, the Health and Safety Executive and the Oil and Gas Authority.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/05/2019 15:00:23 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1124137

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	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	Climate Change Convention
	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 he is taking to ensure the UK secures its bid to host the 2020 UN Climate Change Conference.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	249919
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>We are regularly engaging at Ministerial and official level with interested countries and the Western European and Others Group of the United Nations, as part of a coordinated cross-Government effort to demonstrate the UK is a committed, effective and ambitious leader on climate change and a good potential COP26 host. Our offer to host builds on the strong progress we have made towards the legally binding targets in our world-leading Climate Change Act, and on our broader climate credentials. Between 1990 and 2017, we have reduced our emissions by over 40 per cent while growing the economy by more than two thirds. In order to continue this progress, we have placed clean growth at the heart of our Industrial Strategy and made it one of four Grand Challenges. Thanks to this robust platform of domestic action and our diplomatic network, we continue to be at the forefront of encouraging the world to move towards clean growth.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/05/2019 16:51:59 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1124187

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	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	Energy Company Obligation
	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 Energy Company Obligation ECO3 installations have been made in each Parliamentary constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	249946
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The attached table shows the number of measures delivered under the current phase of the Energy Company Obligation (ECO3) for the latest data available (October 2018 – February 2019) for each Parliamentary constituency in Great Britain. In order to manage the risk of revealing personal or commercial data, our approach is not to release non-zero counts of less than five for a small geographic area so these have been shown as 1-4 where applicable.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/05/2019 16:52:26 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry attachment 1 file name ECO3 by constituency final.xlsx title ECO3 measures by Constituency, Oct 2018-Feb 2019
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1124200

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	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	Energy: Meters
	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 he is taking to ensure the affordability of electrical smart meters.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	249874
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2019 answer text <p>Energy suppliers are responsible for the procurement of smart meters and have commercial incentives to drive down the costs of metering. Moreover, a number of meter manufacturers operate in the GB energy market and competition in the supply of meters also helps to exert downward pressure on costs.</p><p> </p><p>Consumers pay for metering costs (whether traditional or smart) as part of their energy bills. The Government has put measures in place to prohibit energy suppliers from charging households upfront for the costs of a smart meter and its installation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/05/2019 15:00:42 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1124219

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	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	Business: Environment Protection
	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 is taking to ensure businesses receive adequate training on risks presented by environmental challenges.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	249877
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Environment Agency provides advice on how businesses should comply with environmental law through guidance on Gov.uk. In order to regulate businesses it provides advice on the best available techniques and approaches that enable businesses to comply with the law and helps businesses with the best available compliance techniques. We are also committed to working closely with the private sector to support the effective management of climate-related financial risks.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/05/2019 16:51:49 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1124220

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	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	Carbon Emissions: Northern Ireland
	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 oral contribution of the Minister for Energy and Clean Growth of 23 April 2019, Official Report, column 690, what are the market mechanisms put in place to deliver CO2 reductions in Northern Ireland since the closure of the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	North Down
	tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
	uin	249878
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2019 answer text <p>Energy policy, including heat, is devolved for Northern Ireland. Section 113 of the Energy Act 2011 contains provisions enabling the Northern Ireland Executive to make regulations to introduce and operate a RHI scheme in Northern Ireland. The GB RHI scheme is completely separate to the NI RHI scheme, with different scheme rules. Between 1990 and 2016, Northern Ireland reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 16%[1].</p><p> </p><p>The Government has been working with Northern Ireland’s Executive in areas such as the future of carbon pricing after we leave the European Union.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government and the Devolved Administrations (the Scottish Government; the Welsh Government; and the Northern Ireland Executive) have jointly published a consultation document on the UK’s future approach to carbon pricing. The consultation plays a vital role in helping the government fulfil its commitment to carbon pricing as an effective emissions reduction tool, as outlined in the Clean Growth Strategy</p><p> </p><p>This is a joint consultation and the Devolved Administrations are co-authors and Government officials have worked with devolved administration’s counterparts throughout the process. At ministerial level I have regular quadrilaterals and Northern Ireland is represented by senior civil servants.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Source: <a href="http://naei.beis.gov.uk/reports/reports?report_id=958" target="_blank">http://naei.beis.gov.uk/reports/reports?report_id=958</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/05/2019 15:00:06 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

1124314

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	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	Drax Power Station: Biofuels
	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 sums have been paid in subsidy in each of the last five years to Drax power station for burning wood pellets.
	tabling member constituency	East Antrim
	tabling member printed	Sammy Wilson
	uin	250019
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2019 answer text <p>Over the last five years, Drax’s renewable electricity generation from the co-firing of biomass and the conversion of coal-fired units to 100% biomass has been supported under the Renewables Obligation (RO) scheme. From 21 December 2016, Drax’s 3rd Conversion Unit (Unit 1) has received support under the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme. Units 2, 3 and 4 remain under the RO.</p><p> </p><p>Information is not available on support under the RO specifically for burning wood pellets. Therefore, the figures in the table below give the value of support for all of Drax’s renewable electricity generation under the scheme, to the nearest million pounds.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Renewables Obligation[1]</p></td><td><p>£181m</p></td><td><p>£399m</p></td><td><p>£548m</p></td><td><p>£548m</p></td><td><p>£399m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Payments to individual projects are not reported separately under the CfD scheme. The total value of payments to all the CfD supported projects is available in the annual reports from the Low Carbon Contracts Company, the CfD scheme administrator, at: <a href="https://www.lowcarboncontracts.uk/publications?f%5B0%5D=field_publications_category%3A29" target="_blank">https://www.lowcarboncontracts.uk/publications?f%5B0%5D=field_publications_category%3A29</a></p><p>[1] The Renewables Obligation figures are the notional value of support, based on Ofgem’s certificate report as at 01/05/2019 from their Renewables and CHP Register.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/05/2019 15:00:51 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1593 label Biography information for Sammy Wilson