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931888

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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, what assessment his Department has made of the implication for his policies of 2.5 million people living in energy poverty.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	158267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>This Government is committed to tackling fuel poverty. The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-statistics" target="_blank">latest statistics</a> on fuel poverty in England show the average fuel poverty gap – the amount needed on average to lift households out of fuel poverty – decreased to £326 in 2016, down from £341 in 2015.</p><p>The best long-term solution is to improve energy efficiency to bring the cost of heating homes down. That is why we have just consulted on focussing the whole of the £640m per year Energy Company Obligation on low income and vulnerable households from later this year.</p><p>We are also introducing a price cap to stop unreasonable price rises for those 11 million households on standard variable and default tariffs and under the Warm Home Discount Scheme, over 2 million low income and vulnerable households are provided with a £140 rebate off their energy bill each winter.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/07/2018 16:25:52 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

931889

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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, what steps the Government is taking to support (a) single parents and (b) households in private rented accommodation at risk of energy poverty.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	158268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The best long-term solution to fuel poverty is to improve energy efficiency to bring the cost of heating homes down. That is what we are doing through the Energy Company Obligation where we have consulted on focussing the whole of the scheme on low income and vulnerable households from later this year. We are also introducing a price cap to stop unreasonable price rises for those 11 million households on standard variable and default tariffs. Under the Warm Home Discount Scheme, over 2 million low income and vulnerable households are provided with a £140 rebate off their energy bill each winter.</p><p>Single parents and households in private rented accommodation will benefit from all of these measures. For those in the latter category, new Private Rental Sector Regulations came into force as planned on the 1st April 2018. They mean that all private landlords need to ensure that their properties reach at least a minimum Energy Performance Certificate rating of E before granting a tenancy to new or existing tenants. We also want to use new powers under the Digital Economy Act to help us focus support more accurately towards low income and vulnerable households living in fuel poverty.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/07/2018 16:25:22 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

931890

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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, what assessment his Department has made of regional disparity in energy poverty; and what estimate his Department has made of the number of households living in energy poverty in Blackburn.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	158269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2018 answer text <p>Fuel poverty figures by region can be found in Table 6 of the fuel poverty detailed tables: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fuel-poverty-detailed-tables-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fuel-poverty-detailed-tables-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>The number of households living in fuel poverty in Blackburn in 2016 is estimated to be 6,400 (15.4 per cent).</p><p> </p><p><em>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-regional-fuel-poverty-data-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-regional-fuel-poverty-data-2018</a>, Table 5</em></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 05/07/2018 10:13:16 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

931969

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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 the Government is taking to protect consumers from increased energy charges due to faulty smart meters.
tabling member constituency	North East Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Lee Rowley
uin	158339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2018 answer text <p>Getting a smart meter is the best way to avoid inaccurate bills and increased energy costs. Smart meters are bringing an end to estimated billing and are expected to take an estimated £300m off energy bills in 2020 alone.</p><p> </p><p>Smart meters must comply with relevant legislation on measurement, which are the Measuring Instruments (Active Electrical Energy Meters) Regulations 2006 and the Measuring Instruments (Gas Meters) Regulations 2006. The accuracy of all meters is also monitored through the in-service testing (IST) scheme, and energy suppliers have strong commercial incentives to ensure that smart meters installed are accurate and function correctly given the costs of replacement.</p><p>Ofgem require suppliers to treat customers fairly, including setting out in contracts compensation and refund arrangements which apply if contracted quality service levels are not met, including inaccurate and delayed billing. These requirements apply with smart meters as they do with traditional meters.</p><p> </p><p>Instances of back-billing sometimes occur after installations of smart meters due to an absence of meter readings from a legacy meter, and are often mistakenly attributed to a smart meter being faulty. BEIS has worked with energy suppliers to identify and share good practice to mitigate the risk and impact of consumers receiving back-bills when they have a smart meter fitted, and energy suppliers cannot back-bill their domestic customers for more than 12 months where the consumer is not at fault.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 158340 158341 question first answered 05/07/2018 10:13:02 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley

931971

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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 the Government plans to take to help ensure consumers are compensated for increased energy charges caused by faulty smart meters or their readings.
tabling member constituency	North East Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Lee Rowley
uin	158340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2018 answer text <p>Getting a smart meter is the best way to avoid inaccurate bills and increased energy costs. Smart meters are bringing an end to estimated billing and are expected to take an estimated £300m off energy bills in 2020 alone.</p><p> </p><p>Smart meters must comply with relevant legislation on measurement, which are the Measuring Instruments (Active Electrical Energy Meters) Regulations 2006 and the Measuring Instruments (Gas Meters) Regulations 2006. The accuracy of all meters is also monitored through the in-service testing (IST) scheme, and energy suppliers have strong commercial incentives to ensure that smart meters installed are accurate and function correctly given the costs of replacement.</p><p>Ofgem require suppliers to treat customers fairly, including setting out in contracts compensation and refund arrangements which apply if contracted quality service levels are not met, including inaccurate and delayed billing. These requirements apply with smart meters as they do with traditional meters.</p><p> </p><p>Instances of back-billing sometimes occur after installations of smart meters due to an absence of meter readings from a legacy meter, and are often mistakenly attributed to a smart meter being faulty. BEIS has worked with energy suppliers to identify and share good practice to mitigate the risk and impact of consumers receiving back-bills when they have a smart meter fitted, and energy suppliers cannot back-bill their domestic customers for more than 12 months where the consumer is not at fault.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 158339 158341 question first answered 05/07/2018 10:13:02 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley

931972

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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 measures are in place to ensure that energy companies comprehensively investigate reasons for variations in meter readings when analogue meters are replaced by smart meters.
tabling member constituency	North East Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Lee Rowley
uin	158341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2018 answer text <p>Getting a smart meter is the best way to avoid inaccurate bills and increased energy costs. Smart meters are bringing an end to estimated billing and are expected to take an estimated £300m off energy bills in 2020 alone.</p><p> </p><p>Smart meters must comply with relevant legislation on measurement, which are the Measuring Instruments (Active Electrical Energy Meters) Regulations 2006 and the Measuring Instruments (Gas Meters) Regulations 2006. The accuracy of all meters is also monitored through the in-service testing (IST) scheme, and energy suppliers have strong commercial incentives to ensure that smart meters installed are accurate and function correctly given the costs of replacement.</p><p>Ofgem require suppliers to treat customers fairly, including setting out in contracts compensation and refund arrangements which apply if contracted quality service levels are not met, including inaccurate and delayed billing. These requirements apply with smart meters as they do with traditional meters.</p><p> </p><p>Instances of back-billing sometimes occur after installations of smart meters due to an absence of meter readings from a legacy meter, and are often mistakenly attributed to a smart meter being faulty. BEIS has worked with energy suppliers to identify and share good practice to mitigate the risk and impact of consumers receiving back-bills when they have a smart meter fitted, and energy suppliers cannot back-bill their domestic customers for more than 12 months where the consumer is not at fault.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 158339 158340 question first answered 05/07/2018 10:13:02 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley

931975

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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
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 can take to ensure that community benefits which are the result of an agreement to establish a wind-farm are honoured when that wind-farm changes owner or operator; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
tabling member printed	Bill Grant
uin	158311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>Community benefit funds for onshore wind farms are industry led, voluntary initiatives, which are agreed between developers and local communities in line with protocols that have been established in England and Scotland. Trade associations are responsible for ensuring that the protocols they have created are honoured by their signatories.</p><p> </p><p>We have been clear that we expect developers to provide a fund for local communities in the vicinity of their wind farms. Whilst in Coalition we worked with industry to implement a new community benefit protocol for projects in England, to ensure communities receive a greater level of benefit, and established an online register of English community benefits to aid transparency and accountability. A similar protocol and register has been established for onshore wind projects in Scotland.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance has been produced by the UK Government to aid engagement between developers, communities and local authorities when negotiating community benefit fund arrangements, which is available online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/363405/FINAL_-_Community_Benefits_Guidance.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/363405/FINAL_-_Community_Benefits_Guidance.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>This recommends that the agreement to provide a community fund should be documented as a legal contract between the wind farm developer and the Fund Administrator, and that a mechanism for ensuring that the community benefit provisions continue should be included, irrespective of who owns the wind farm.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/07/2018 16:24:11 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4605 label Biography information for Bill Grant

931552

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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 the strike prices were of all major energy projects in the UK since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	157661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The strike prices for all energy projects awarded a Contract for Difference in the UK since 2012 are published on the Government’s website.</p><p>The strike prices awarded in CFD Allocation Round 2 are published at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/643560/CFD_allocation_round_2_outcome_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/643560/CFD_allocation_round_2_outcome_FINAL.pdf</a>.</p><p>The strike prices awarded in CFD Allocation Round 1 are published at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/407059/Contracts_for_Difference_-_Auction_Results_-_Official_Statistics.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/407059/Contracts_for_Difference_-_Auction_Results_-_Official_Statistics.pdf</a>.</p><p>The strike prices awarded to FIDER enabled CFD projects are published at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/record-investments-of-40-billion-in-renewable-electricity-to-bring-green-jobs-and-growth-to-the-uk" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/record-investments-of-40-billion-in-renewable-electricity-to-bring-green-jobs-and-growth-to-the-uk</a> and the details of the projects awarded those contracts are published at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/305781/Successful_Projects.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/305781/Successful_Projects.pdf</a>.</p><p>The strike price awarded to Hinkley Point C is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hinkley-point-c" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hinkley-point-c</a>.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/07/2018 16:33:03 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

931553

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Tidal Power: Swansea Bay
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 dates he or representatives of his Department met Tidal Lagoon Power to discuss the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	157662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>Over the last two years Tidal Lagoon Power have had meetings with BEIS ministers on 19 April 2016 and 28 September 2016, with Special Advisers on 13 January 2017 and with officials on 5 October 2017. However, across that period there has been other frequent engagement between the company Chair and Chief Executive and senior BEIS officials.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/07/2018 16:33:25 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

931557

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Nuclear Power and 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, what assessment he has made of the reliability of electricity generation by (a) nuclear, (b) wind, (c) solar and (d) tidal energy sources.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	157665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>In considering the reliability of all generating technologies, the Department draws on content from National Grid. The latest National Grid Electricity Capacity Report (31 May 2017) can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.emrdeliverybody.com/Lists/Latest%20News/Attachments/116/Electricity%20Capacity%20Report%202017.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.emrdeliverybody.com/Lists/Latest%20News/Attachments/116/Electricity%20Capacity%20Report%202017.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/07/2018 16:33:49 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane