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1132811

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date	18/06/2019
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	Boilers
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 11 June 2019 to Question 258963 on Boilers, how the variables to which he refers affect the efficiency of the boiler itself as distinct from the whole heating system; and if will he make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	266061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>Of the variables referred to, those that impact the efficiency of the boiler itself are the heat distribution system, comprising emitters, pipes and pumps and the user controls.</p><p> </p><p>Condensing boiler efficiency is typically improved by a lower water return temperature. The design, efficacy and maintenance of the heat distribution system can impact this temperature. For example, an undersized system will require a higher flow temperature making it more difficult to achieve a low return temperature.</p><p> </p><p>User controls such as timers and thermostats can impact when the boiler turns on and off. The rate of this (cycling) can also impact the efficiency of the boiler with rapid cycling being potentially detrimental to efficiency. User controlled radiator valves can affect the flow rate through the system also impacting flow and return temperatures and cycling affecting boiler efficiency.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 25/06/2019 10:26:35 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1132814

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
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	Boilers
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 11 June 2019 to Question 258963 on Boilers, what steps he is taking to ensure that domestic boilers comply in situ with the 92 per cent efficiency rate as set out in the Domestic Building Services Compliance Guide, pages 10 and 18.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	266062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities have powers under the Building Act 1984 to enforce the building regulations, including fixed building services such as boiler installations, and have work altered or removed that does not comply. The Building Regulations and Gas Safe rules of registration require that Gas Safe registered businesses comply with their geographical area regulations by notifying any relevant appliances they have installed to the Local Authority. Failure to comply can result in disciplinary action and can ultimately result in traders being struck off the Gas Safe Register.</p><p> </p><p>An initial assessment of Boiler Plus planned for later this year will reveal if there are significant instances of non-compliance. To date, no evidence has come to light to suggest gas boilers below 92% ErP are being installed in English homes.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 25/06/2019 10:26:41 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1132815

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
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	Boilers: Natural Gas
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 compatibility of the statement in the Answer to Question 255264 on 24 May 2019 that there is no evidence that boilers with an efficiency below 92 per cent continued to be sold beyond the coming into force date of the current standards, with the statement in Answer to Question 245593 on 1 May 2019 that only the majority of boilers on the market met or exceeded the minimum efficiency requirement of 92 per cent when the new standards were introduced.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	266063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>The statements made with respect to these two questions are fully compatible. The 2016 consultation asked the boiler industry what would be an appropriate lead-in period to allow traders to make preparations, such as clearing old stock, ahead of new standards coming into force. A majority of respondents stated that three months would be sufficient. The government provided a six month lead-in period, to ensure that adequate time was allowed for all market participants.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 25/06/2019 10:26:47 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1132816

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
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	SAP Scientific Integrity Group: Disclosure of Information
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 12 June 2019 to Question 259850, which parties were shown the results of the standard assessment procedure scientific integrity group findings.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	266064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>The feedback from the Standard Assessment Procedure Scientific Integrity Group (SAPSIG) was supplied to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the secretariat of SAPSIG (Robust Details Ltd.), the Building Research Establishment, and the company concerned.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 25/06/2019 10:26:55 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1132817

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
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	Waste Heat Recovery
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 12 June 2019 to Question 259850, which manufacturers of flue gas heat recovery systems have discussed the representations of their own products with the Building Research Establishment.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	266065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>All manufacturers of flue gas heat recovery systems and other products in the Product Characteristics Database (PCDB) communicate with the Building Research Establishment (BRE) on the representation of their products in the database.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 25/06/2019 10:27:01 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1132818

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
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	Boilers
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 finding that there is therefore an increased risk that boilers will in fact be non-compliant, in the Building Research Establishment's briefing of 7 February 2018 entitled The future of domestic boiler performance metrics in the UK, what steps his Department (a) has taken and (b) plans to take to tackle that risk.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	266066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>The Building Research Establishment (BRE) paper does not find that there is an increased risk that boilers will be non-compliant. BEIS officials worked closely with BRE to assess this risk when the matter was first raised in 2018, and agreed that non-compliance is not the correct interpretation of their paper. They have since published a clarification on their own website, to ensure their work is not misused to make inappropriate claims. That clarification can be found at the following url: <a href="https://www.bregroup.com/press-releases/statement-regarding-energy-efficiency-labelling-of-boilers/" target="_blank">https://www.bregroup.com/press-releases/statement-regarding-energy-efficiency-labelling-of-boilers/</a></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 25/06/2019 10:27:07 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1132819

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
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	SAP Scientific Integrity Group: Disclosure of Information
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 his Answer of 12 June 2019 to Question 259850 on Waste Heat Recovery, if he will publish the standard assessment procedure scientific integrity group findings with personal details and the names of the manufacturers redacted.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	266067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>The analysis of the Standard Assessment Procedure Scientific Integrity Group contains information which is of a commercially sensitive nature for the companies involved. Redacting company names would not obviate the risk that disclosure presents to their commercial interests. The Department took this into account in its decision not to publish the analysis more widely.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 25/06/2019 10:27:13 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1132870

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
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: Sustainable Development
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 effect of the UK leaving the EU with no deal on his Department’s ability to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 7 in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	266133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>Leaving the EU, either with or without a deal, will not affect our commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals or in ensuring an affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy system. A record 52.8 per cent of our electricity was generated from clean sources in 2018 and energy bills for the average household in the UK have fallen by 14 per cent in real terms since 2010. Building on our Clean Growth Strategy, the Government has laid draft legislation to set a new net zero greenhouse gas emissions target for the UK, to be delivered by 2050. This world-leading target will bring to an end our contribution to climate change.</p><p>The UK’s first Voluntary National Review (VNR) will be published shortly. The VNR will review UK action both domestically and internationally in support of Goal 7. It will also outline key challenges and next steps, recognising that while progress is being made, there is more work to do.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 25/06/2019 13:51:24 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1132875

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
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: Sustainable Development
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 effect of the UK leaving the EU with no deal on his Department’s ability to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 13 in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	266182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>Leaving the EU with or without a deal will not affect our commitment to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 13. We remain a signatory to the Paris Agreement; will honour our commitments to provide climate finance; are co-leading with Egypt the Resilience and Adaptation theme at the UN Climate Action Summit in September; and we have bid to host COP26 in 2020 in partnership with Italy. Underpinning all of this is our domestic ambition, which will continue to be enshrined in law through the Climate Change Act 2008. Building on our Clean Growth Strategy, on 12th June, the Government laid draft legislation to set a new net zero greenhouse gas emissions target for the UK, to be delivered by 2050.</p><p>The UK’s first Voluntary National Review (VNR) will be published shortly. The VNR will review UK action both domestically and internationally in support of Goal 13. It will also outline key challenges and next steps, recognising that while significant progress is being made, there is more work to do.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 25/06/2019 13:51:31 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1133158

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
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
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 18 June 2019 to Question 262224, which councils have (a) declared a climate emergency (b) set a target for net zero emissions by 2030; and whether any councils set other dates for net zero greenhouse gas emissions.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	266626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>A list of councils that have declared a climate emergency can be found here: <a href="http://www.caceonline.org/councils-that-have-declared.html" target="_blank">http://www.caceonline.org/councils-that-have-declared.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Several of these councils have committed to becoming carbon neutral, with each council responsible for setting its own target date for achieving net zero emissions.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 25/06/2019 10:26:02 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew