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828929

registered interest
date	23/01/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps are being taken to inform the general public about the limitations of first generation smart meters; and what plans he has to ensure that the roll-out of second generation meters removes those limitations.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
uin	124537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>Under licence conditions, energy suppliers must inform their customers prior to the installation of a smart meter that they may lose meter functionality when switching. In addition, before any switch is concluded, the new supplier must tell the consumer about any change in how their meter will operate and the service they will receive.</p><p> </p><p>These requirements aim to help consumers make informed decisions about switching, in the period before first generation smart meters are enrolled into the national data and communications platform and thus can be operated by any energy supplier.</p><p> </p><p>Second generation meters use the smart metering infrastructure run by the Data and Communications Company and will enable all consumers to retain their smart functionality when they switch supplier.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 29/01/2018 16:52:11 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr

828009

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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	Fuel Poverty
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 report Cutting the cost of keeping warm: a fuel poverty strategy for England, published in March 2015, cm 9019, what progress the Government has made on reducing fuel poverty in (a) Oxfordshire and (b) England since the publication of that report.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	123969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>We have not yet quantify progress in reducing fuel poverty in Oxfordshire since the year 2015. The latest official statistics cover the year 2015 and show that 9.6% of homes in Oxfordshire were fuel poor, which is below the national average of 11%. Official statistics for the year 2016 will be published this summer.</p><p>Since 2015 Government has taken action to tackle fuel poverty. This includes reforming the £640m Energy Company Obligation to increase the expenditure under the scheme which is focused in low income households from £310m to £450m in 2017. We will be consulting soon on focussing the whole of ECO on low income and vulnerable households from October 2018.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 25/01/2018 15:28:34 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

828122

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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	Incinerators: Carbon Emissions
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 information his Department holds on biogenic CO2e emissions from waste incineration with energy recovery; and where such information is published.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	124082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>Defra commissioned a report “Biodegradability of municipal solid waste” (project reference WR1003) which provides measurements of the biogenic content of waste by mass. Waste incinerators which are in receipt of government support are required by OfGEM to either provide assessments of the biogenic content of the waste or to use a disadvantageous default value. The Defra report is available on their science and research project website:</p><p><a href="http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Document.aspx?Document=12266_WR1003BiodegradabilityofMSWReportfinal.pdf" target="_blank">http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Document.aspx?Document=12266_WR1003BiodegradabilityofMSWReportfinal.pdf</a>.</p><p>Emissions from UK waste incineration are included in the UK Greenhouse gas emissions inventory annually:</p><p><a href="http://unfccc.int/national_reports/annex_i_ghg_inventories/national_inventories_submissions/items/10116.php" target="_blank">http://unfccc.int/national_reports/annex_i_ghg_inventories/national_inventories_submissions/items/10116.php</a>.</p><p>These emissions estimates are split by biogenic and non-biogenic, however this is not possible for municipal solid waste (MSW).</p><p>Emissions from UK waste incineration, including waste incineration with energy recovery, for the years 2010-2015 were as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="7"><p><strong>Million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO<sub>2</sub>e)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total UK waste incineration (includes waste incineration with energy recovery)<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td><td><p>2.3</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of which:</p></td><td colspan="6"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-biogenic (including all MSW)</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td><td><p>2.3</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Biogenic</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em><sup>1 Totals may not sum due to rounding</sup></em></p><p>This includes emissions from methane (CH<sub>4</sub>) and Nitrous Oxide (N<sub>2</sub>O) as well as carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) emissions.</p><p>These emissions are included in our annual submission to the UNFCCC. Waste incineration can be found in table 5 of the Convention tables on the UNFCCC website:</p><p><a href="http://unfccc.int/files/national_reports/annex_i_ghg_inventories/national_inventories_submissions/application/zip/gbr-2017-crf-13apr17.zip" target="_blank">http://unfccc.int/files/national_reports/annex_i_ghg_inventories/national_inventories_submissions/application/zip/gbr-2017-crf-13apr17.zip</a></p><p>The numbers above do not match the numbers presented in the table 5 of the Convention tables submitted to the UNFCCC as waste incineration with energy recovery is reported under the energy supply sector (table 1).</p><p><em>Source: <a href="http://unfccc.int/national_reports/annex_i_ghg_inventories/national_inventories_submissions/items/10116.php" target="_blank">http://unfccc.int/national_reports/annex_i_ghg_inventories/national_inventories_submissions/items/10116.php</a></em></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 124084 question first answered 25/01/2018 16:55:31 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

828124

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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	Incinerators: Carbon Emissions
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 the data reported by his Department to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were for (a) biogenic and (b) non-biogenic CO2e emissions from UK waste incineration in each year since 2010; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	124084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>Defra commissioned a report “Biodegradability of municipal solid waste” (project reference WR1003) which provides measurements of the biogenic content of waste by mass. Waste incinerators which are in receipt of government support are required by OfGEM to either provide assessments of the biogenic content of the waste or to use a disadvantageous default value. The Defra report is available on their science and research project website:</p><p><a href="http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Document.aspx?Document=12266_WR1003BiodegradabilityofMSWReportfinal.pdf" target="_blank">http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Document.aspx?Document=12266_WR1003BiodegradabilityofMSWReportfinal.pdf</a>.</p><p>Emissions from UK waste incineration are included in the UK Greenhouse gas emissions inventory annually:</p><p><a href="http://unfccc.int/national_reports/annex_i_ghg_inventories/national_inventories_submissions/items/10116.php" target="_blank">http://unfccc.int/national_reports/annex_i_ghg_inventories/national_inventories_submissions/items/10116.php</a>.</p><p>These emissions estimates are split by biogenic and non-biogenic, however this is not possible for municipal solid waste (MSW).</p><p>Emissions from UK waste incineration, including waste incineration with energy recovery, for the years 2010-2015 were as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="7"><p><strong>Million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO<sub>2</sub>e)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total UK waste incineration (includes waste incineration with energy recovery)<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td><td><p>2.3</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of which:</p></td><td colspan="6"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-biogenic (including all MSW)</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td><td><p>2.3</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Biogenic</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em><sup>1 Totals may not sum due to rounding</sup></em></p><p>This includes emissions from methane (CH<sub>4</sub>) and Nitrous Oxide (N<sub>2</sub>O) as well as carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) emissions.</p><p>These emissions are included in our annual submission to the UNFCCC. Waste incineration can be found in table 5 of the Convention tables on the UNFCCC website:</p><p><a href="http://unfccc.int/files/national_reports/annex_i_ghg_inventories/national_inventories_submissions/application/zip/gbr-2017-crf-13apr17.zip" target="_blank">http://unfccc.int/files/national_reports/annex_i_ghg_inventories/national_inventories_submissions/application/zip/gbr-2017-crf-13apr17.zip</a></p><p>The numbers above do not match the numbers presented in the table 5 of the Convention tables submitted to the UNFCCC as waste incineration with energy recovery is reported under the energy supply sector (table 1).</p><p><em>Source: <a href="http://unfccc.int/national_reports/annex_i_ghg_inventories/national_inventories_submissions/items/10116.php" target="_blank">http://unfccc.int/national_reports/annex_i_ghg_inventories/national_inventories_submissions/items/10116.php</a></em></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 124082 question first answered 25/01/2018 16:55:31 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

828132

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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	Food: Production
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 information his Department holds on the amount of coal used in the production of food in the UK in each year since 1992 for which data is available; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	124092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>BEIS does not hold coal consumption statistics at this level of disaggregation; however, the table below presents the final consumption of coal by the UK food and beverage industry as a whole from 2005 to 2016:</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Final consumption of coal by the UK food and beverage industry, 2005 – 2016:</em></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Thousand tonnes</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Thousand tonnes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>62</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: Digest of UK Energy Statistics, table 2.4, available at</em></p><p><em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solid-fuels-and-derived-gases-chapter-2-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solid-fuels-and-derived-gases-chapter-2-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes</a></em></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 25/01/2018 16:39:13 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

828140

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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
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 the Government has invested in renewable energy through the Contract for Difference programme since 2010.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Paul Masterton
uin	124100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>To date, contracts have been signed to bring forward nearly 10 gigawatts of renewable generation capacity, with the first of these recently beginning to generate. Government support for these projects is expected to rise to around £2.5 billion a year by 2024/25 (in 2011/12 prices).</p><p> </p><p>Our sustained support has helped deliver dramatic falls in the costs of renewable technologies such as offshore wind.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to delivering clean, smart, and flexible power, which is why in our ambitious Clean Growth Strategy we committed up to £557 million of annual support for further Contracts for Difference, with the next one planned for spring 2019 (in 2011/12 prices).</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 25/01/2018 16:51:25 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4625 label Biography information for Paul Masterton

828186

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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	UK Climate Investments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which projects have received funding from UK Climate Investments; and how much of that funding has been spent to date.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	124146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>UK Climate Investments has so far has completed one investment, in a partnership platform alongside UK solar company Lightsource BP to fund the development, acquisition and ownership of large scale solar power generation assets in India. The construction of an initial 60MWp project in the Indian state of Maharastra is underway.</p><p>UK Climate Investments has earmarked up to £30m in aggregate for this project and for a broader partnership with Lightsource to develop and construct up to a total of 300MW of PV projects. Just over £5.2m has been spent to date by UK Climate Investments on this project, including due diligence and other transaction costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 29/01/2018 14:14:42 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

828261

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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	Utilities: Cooperatives
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 the use of a cooperative model of ownership for gas and water providers.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	124221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government has not assessed the use of a cooperative model of ownership for gas or water.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 25/01/2018 10:30:29 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

828277

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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: Consumers
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 encourage consumers to switch energy providers.
tabling member constituency	New Forest West
tabling member printed	Sir Desmond Swayne
uin	124237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>The number of customers switching between energy suppliers continues to increase – approximately 7.8 million energy switches took place in 2016 - an increase of nearly 1.7 million on 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The Government worked with Ofgem and industry to change the industry rules so that it is now possible for customers to switch suppliers in up to 21 days. This has been enshrined as the minimum standard in the Energy Switch Guarantee, launched in June 2016. Prior to this it took around 5 weeks to switch.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to work with Energy UK who administer the Guarantee to strengthen and promote it to give consumers greater confidence that the process of switching energy supplier will be simple, speedy and safe.</p><p> </p><p>We are working closely with Ofgem on their switching programme to enable consumers to switch their energy supplier reliably and quickly delivering next day switching as a new industry standard and improving reliability of the switching process through better management and oversight of industry data.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has provided £1.3m funding for the Big Energy Saving Network and Big Energy Saving Week this winter to fund third sector organisations and community groups, to support vulnerable consumers so they can switch and save.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 25/01/2018 17:59:02 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry previous answer version 37197 answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne

825695

registered interest
date	19/01/2018
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	Incinerators: Carbon Emissions
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 information his Department holds on the amount of CO2e that is emitted for every tonne of waste that is incinerated.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	123763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>According to the latest Conversion Factors for Company Reporting, published in August 2017, the conversion factor of incineration of any waste material is 21.8 kg CO2e per tonne. Therefore each tonne of waste that is incinerated will release 21.8 kg CO2e of emissions.</p><p> </p><p>Source: Conversion Factors 2017, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/635632/Conversion_factors_2017_-_Condensed_set__for_most_users__v02-00.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/635632/Conversion_factors_2017_-_Condensed_set__for_most_users__v02-00.xls</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 25/01/2018 12:04:14 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew