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1019334

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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 Performance Certificates
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 on homeowners of energy efficiency measures required to obtain EPC band C; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	198385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>In the Clean Growth Strategy we set out our aspiration that as many homes as possible will be upgraded to an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) Band C by 2035, where practical, cost effective and affordable.</p><p> </p><p>1. On average, it can cost £2,100 more per year to run the least inefficient homes (Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) “G” rated) compared to the most efficient ones (“A” rated).</p><p> </p><p>2. We want to ensure that everyone has a home that is comfortable, healthy and affordable to run. The effect on home owners of upgrading to an EPC Band C will be different depending on the type of home and the measures that are appropriate to improve it. Typical energy efficiency measures might include installing insulation, a more energy efficient boiler or new heating controls.</p><p> </p><p>3. Energy efficiency brings a wide range of benefits to households, society and the energy system as a whole. More efficient homes mean lower energy bills and improved health and comfort for homeowners, as well as wider benefits such as improvements to air quality.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 10/12/2018 17:10:54 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1019382

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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	Green Deal Scheme: Appeals
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 24 October 2018 to Question 179252 on Green Deal Scheme: Appeals, how many appeals referred to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (a) have been resolved and (b) remain outstanding.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	198306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 24 October 2018 to Question 179252. The Department is continuing to work through all outstanding cases, and at the end of November a total of ninety are being reviewed.</p><p>All eligible cases referred to the Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy will be considered under The Green Deal Framework (Disclosure, Acknowledgment, Redress etc.) Regulations 2012 (the Regulations). The Department is committed to resolving those cases fairly and as quickly as possible. However, the complex and legal nature of the redress process prescribed by the Regulations and volume of information we receive from consumers means complaints take some time to resolve. The Department has obtained additional support to review cases in order to speed up the process and is aiming to address the backlog of appeals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Months outstanding</p></td><td><p>Number of appeals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Longer than 12 months</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 198307 question first answered 06/12/2018 16:02:24 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1019383

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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	Green Deal Scheme: Appeals
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 24 October 2018 to Question 179252 on Green Deal Scheme: Appeals, how many of the 77 outstanding cases that have been referred to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy have been with the Secretary of State for (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four, (e) five, (f) six, (g) seven, (h) eight, (i) nine, (j) 10, (k) 11 and (l) 12 months or longer without a final decision having been made.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	198307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 24 October 2018 to Question 179252. The Department is continuing to work through all outstanding cases, and at the end of November a total of ninety are being reviewed.</p><p>All eligible cases referred to the Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy will be considered under The Green Deal Framework (Disclosure, Acknowledgment, Redress etc.) Regulations 2012 (the Regulations). The Department is committed to resolving those cases fairly and as quickly as possible. However, the complex and legal nature of the redress process prescribed by the Regulations and volume of information we receive from consumers means complaints take some time to resolve. The Department has obtained additional support to review cases in order to speed up the process and is aiming to address the backlog of appeals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Months outstanding</p></td><td><p>Number of appeals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Longer than 12 months</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 198306 question first answered 06/12/2018 16:02:24 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1019384

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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	Green Deal Scheme: Appeals
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 24 October 2018 to Question 179252 on Green Deal Scheme: Appeals, in which constituencies the 77 outstanding green deal cases originated.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	198308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>Below is a breakdown by constituency of the ninety outstanding cases received by my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State up until the end of November 2018.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Constituency</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of appeals</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Airdrie and Shotts</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham, Erdington</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham, Hodge Hill</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham, Selly Oak</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham, Yardley</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bradford South</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Caerphilly</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cardiff South and Penarth</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Carmarthen East and Dinefwr</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central Ayrshire</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Colchester</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Corby</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Don Valley</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Dunbartonshire</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Renfrewshire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Edinburgh South</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Elmet and Rothwell</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow Central</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow East</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow North</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glenrothes</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jarrow</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kilmarnock and Loudoun</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lanark and Hamilton East</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leeds East</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Linlithgow and East Falkirk</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Llanelli</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Motherwell and Wishaw</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newport East</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Ayrshire and Arran</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Somerset</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West Leicestershire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham South</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ogmore</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Paisley and Renfrewshire North</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Paisley and Renfrewshire South</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Redditch</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rochdale</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Romford</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rushcliffe</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rutherglen and Hamilton West</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Somerton and Frome</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Holland and The Deepings</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Torfaen</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwick and Leamington</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Weaver Vale</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wellingborough</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Dunbartonshire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Lancashire</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Worcester</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 06/12/2018 16:02:34 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1019510

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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: Costs
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 21 November 2018 by the Minister of State for Climate Change and Industry to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee on Carbon Capture and Storage, Question 229, if he will identify the evidence on which the Minister based her statement that onshore wind cost-comparisons are not necessarily particularly accurate.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	198142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s most recent assessment of levelised costs for a range of technologies was published in 2016. We are currently undertaking a review of our evidence on levelised costs of electricity generation.</p><p> </p><p>The cost of developing, building and operating any onshore or offshore wind farm will vary according to site specific characteristics. Levelised costs are a generic central estimate which take into account the range of likely costs associated with developing projects of a particular technology class but are not in themselves project specific.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 10/12/2018 17:10:35 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

1019512

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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: Costs
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 estimate he has made of the relative cost of onshore wind as a form of energy production compared to other forms of production.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	198143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>BEIS’s most recent published assessment of electricity generation costs can be found in the generation costs report (2016)[1] which covers both renewable and non-renewable technologies, including onshore wind. We are currently undertaking a review of our evidence on levelised costs of electricity generation.</p><p>[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-electricity-generation-costs-november-2016</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 10/12/2018 17:08:30 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

1019514

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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	Electricity Generation: Costs
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 (a) most expensive and (b) cheapest form of electricity to produce.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	198144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>We are currently undertaking a review of our evidence on levelised costs of electricity generation, which will be published in due course. BEIS’s most recent published assessment of electricity generation costs can be found in the generation costs report (2016)[1]</p><p> </p><p>[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-electricity-generation-costs-november-2016</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 10/12/2018 17:09:56 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

1019571

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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: Industry
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 effectiveness and affordability for industry of his energy efficiency policies.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	198386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>Regulatory impact assessments are routinely prepared as part of the policy making process setting out the costs and benefits for industry of new energy efficiency policies. For example:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) –<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/energy-savings-opportunity-scheme" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/energy-savings-opportunity-scheme</a></li><li>Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) – <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/streamlined-energy-and-carbon-reporting" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/streamlined-energy-and-carbon-reporting</a></li><li>CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme - <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110405161430/http:/www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/consultations/crc/crc.aspx" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110405161430/http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/consultations/crc/crc.aspx</a></li><li>Industrial Heat Recovery Scheme - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/industrial-heat-recovery-support-programme" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/industrial-heat-recovery-support-programme</a></li></ul><p>We also undertake evaluations to tell us what works and what does not, including the extent to which our policies are achieving their objectives and their impact on industry. We are currently conducting a number of evaluations, including of the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme and Climate Change Agreements to inform future policy development.</p><p> </p><p>In developing further policies to meet our ambition set out in the Clean Growth Strategy to support businesses to improve their energy efficiency by at least 20% by 2030, we issued a call for evidence to seek views from industry and other stakeholders on our proposed approach. We are currently analysing the responses and we will publish further details in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>At Budget 2018, we announced the establishment of a £315M Industrial Energy Transformation Fund to help businesses with high energy use to transition to a low carbon future cutting their bills and carbon emissions. We also announced the issue of a call for evidence on introducing a new Business Energy Efficiency Scheme focused on smaller businesses. We are planning to publish further details on these announcements in 2019.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 11/12/2018 17:38:50 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew