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1037009

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
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	Solar Power: 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, if he will reconsider his Department's decision to end the export tariff for new solar installations.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	205974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>On 8 January, Government published a consultation on the future for small-scale low-carbon generation. This can be viewed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/the-future-for-small-scale-low-carbon-generation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/the-future-for-small-scale-low-carbon-generation</a>.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 14/01/2019 15:54:19 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1037010

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
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 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, if he will reconsider his Department's decision to end the small-scale feed-in tariff.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	205975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>On 8 January, Government published a consultation on the future for small-scale low-carbon generation. This can be viewed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/the-future-for-small-scale-low-carbon-generation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/the-future-for-small-scale-low-carbon-generation</a>.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 14/01/2019 15:54:25 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

968109

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
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: 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, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that utility companies pass on decreases in wholesale energy prices to consumers.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	170771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The Domestic Gas &amp; Electricity (Tariff Cap) Act places a duty on Ofgem to set a temporary price cap on standard variable and default tariffs.</p><p> </p><p>On 6th September 2018, Ofgem published a statutory consultation, in which they propose a methodology for setting the cap level which takes account of supplier costs including for the wholesale cost of energy. Ofgem propose setting the initial level of the cap at £1,136 and will update the cap on a regular basis to reflect changes in costs, including wholesale energy prices.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/09/2018 15:22:09 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

964004

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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 Supply: Public Sector
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 establishing a publicly-owned not-for-profit energy company similar to that proposed by the Scottish Government.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	169562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government wants markets to thrive and continues to promote competition as the best driver of value and service for customers. There are now nearly 70 energy suppliers in the domestic retail energy market including three publicly owned fully-licensed energy suppliers in Great Britain.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 17/09/2018 13:19:07 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

884873

registered interest
date	16/04/2018
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	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, if he will make it his policy to support off-grid households to connect to the gas network.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	135861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>The Gas Act 1986 already confers a duty on my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State to ‘secure that, so far as it is economical to meet them, all reasonable demands in Great Britain for gas conveyed through pipes’. This duty is exercised through obligations and licence conditions placed upon gas operators.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Gas Act 1986 (ss.9 &amp; 10) also confers on Gas Distribution Network operators the obligation to comply with requests to be connected to their gas mains, so far as it is economical to do so, and where the premises to be connected are within 23 metres of a relevant main.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 24/04/2018 16:09:05 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

846073

registered interest
date	21/02/2018
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	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, if he will undertake a review of the cost of wood pellets used to fuel biomass boilers.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	128782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>The level of support given to biomass in the Renewable Heat Incentive was last amended in September 2017, and the Department currently has no plans to undertake a review of wood pellet costs.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 01/03/2018 16:01:36 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

733015

registered interest
date	27/06/2017
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	EU Institutions: Linlithgow and East Falkirk
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 of the UK leaving the (a) European Chemicals Agency and (b) European Maritime Agency on (i) businesses and (ii) public safety in Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	1375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>We want to achieve the best possible outcome and the strongest possible partnership - one that works for the UK and the EU. As part of the exit negotiations the Government will discuss with the EU and member states how best to continue cooperation in the maritime sector and in the chemical sector in the best interests of both the UK and EU.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 03/07/2017 14:58:14 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

731768

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
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	Green Investment Bank
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 much finance the Green Investment Bank has provided since its creation in (a) the Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency, (b) Scotland and (c) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) provides a full list of its investments across the United Kingdom for each financial year on its website: <a href="http://www.greeninvestmentbank.com/" target="_blank">www.greeninvestmentbank.com</a></p><p> </p><p>GIB has committed £179.7m to 18 Scottish projects, either directly or via its fund managers, since 2012.</p><p> </p><p>Those projects are:</p><p> </p><p>Distillery biomass boiler platform phase 1</p><p>Distillery biomass boiler platform phase 2</p><p>Speyside CHP project</p><p>Glasgow City Council streetlighting project</p><p>Levenseat recycling and waste plant, Forth by Lanark</p><p>Scotland-wide heat pump installation programme, starting with Borders College</p><p>NHS Tayside energy efficiency programme</p><p>Wick district heating scheme</p><p>Stirling Council streetlighting project</p><p>NHS Grampian energy efficiency programme</p><p>Goathill Quarry</p><p>Chaorach</p><p>River Arkaig</p><p>Liatre Burn</p><p>Bruachaig</p><p>Srondoire</p><p>Blackcraig</p><p>Millerhill recycling and waste plant</p><p> </p><p>None of those projects are located in the Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 28/06/2017 14:30:20 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day