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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

968226

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	Renewable Energy: Expenditure
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 money the Government has invested in wave and tidal stream technologies since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Erewash
tabling member printed	Maggie Throup
uin	170853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>There is no single data repository for historical information on cross-government investment into energy research, development and demonstration (RD&amp;D). The best available record of government investment in renewable energy technologies is the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Energy Technology RD&amp;D Budget Database, which this Department and its predecessor (Department of Energy and Climate Change) contribute to. The IEA’s database allows users to track trends in spending by energy technology in IEA countries back to 1974 and can be found at: <a href="https://www.iea.org/statistics/rdd/" target="_blank">http://www.iea.org/statistics/rdd/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>However, including other spending beyond that included in the IEA statistics, since 2008, the Government has invested over £60m in marine energy research, development, demonstration and deployment contributing towards both wave and tidal stream energy.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/09/2018 15:22:24 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup

968240

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	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, if he will make an assessment of the feasibility of a UK net emissions target of zero before 2050.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	170860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The Clean Growth Strategy made clear that the Government believes the UK will need to legislate for a net zero emissions target at an appropriate point in the future.</p><p> </p><p>We announced in April that we will seek the Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) advice on the implications of the Paris Agreement for the UK’s long-term emissions reductions targets, once the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change publish their special report on 1.5°C later this year. We will consider the CCC’s advice carefully when it is received.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/09/2018 15:22:37 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

968241

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	Climate Change Convention
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 the UK meets its commitments under the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	170861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The UK is making strong progress towards its commitments under the Paris Agreement. Between 1990 and 2016, we reduced our emissions by over 40 per cent while growing the economy by more than two thirds. Our Clean Growth Strategy, published last year, set out our policies and proposals for decarbonising the UK economy through the 2020s while maximising the advantages from the global shift to clean growth for UK businesses.</p><p> </p><p>We are also committed to helping developing countries meet their Paris Agreement commitments - the UK is among the largest contributors of climate finance, committing to provide at least £5.8 billion from 2016 to 2020, to help developing countries mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change, reduce deforestation and support cleaner economic growth. Latest results of our investments are available from: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/international-climate-finance#our-results" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/international-climate-finance#our-results</a>.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/09/2018 15:22:53 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

967838

registered interest
date	04/09/2018
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	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, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring onshore windfarm developers to offer property owners within a set proximity to a windfarm the option of having their property purchased at market value by those developers.
tabling member constituency	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
tabling member printed	Bill Grant
uin	170390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>We have no plans at this time to bring forward legislative proposals to compensate residents for loss of property value.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 170391 question first answered 13/09/2018 15:23:10 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4605 label Biography information for Bill Grant

964019

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	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 his Department has made of the levelised cost of energy of new onshore wind projects.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	169519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2018 answer text <p>BEIS’s most recent assessment of electricity generation costs can be found in the generation costs report (2016)[1] which covers both renewable and non-renewable technologies.</p><p> </p><p>The following table gives the most recent levelised cost estimates for onshore wind in a range of commissioning years.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Levelised cost estimates for onshore wind projects commissioning in 2020, 2025 and 2030 (£/MWh, 2014 prices)</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2025</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2030</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Onshore Wind &gt;5MW UK</strong></p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>We are currently undertaking a review of our evidence on levelised costs of electricity generation.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/566567/BEIS_Electricity_Generation_Cost_Report.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/566567/BEIS_Electricity_Generation_Cost_Report.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/09/2018 16:55:20 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

964020

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	Wind Power: 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 comparative estimate his Department has made of (a) international auction prices and (b) UK auction clearing prices for onshore wind in each of the last two years; and what steps his Department is taking to support internationally competitive pricing in the UK auction clearing market.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	169520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>No UK clearing prices exist that can be compared with international auction prices for this timeframe. In the 2015 Contracts for Difference auction, onshore wind cleared at £82.50/MWh (£2012 prices).</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/09/2018 15:21:06 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

964118

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: Competition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to extend the collective switching scheme pilot, established in 2017, to switch energy tariffs on consumers' behalf.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	169036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>Ofgem ran a simplified collective switch trial between February and April this year as part of its trials to engage disengaged consumers and helping them switch to a cheaper tariff, which involved around 50,000 customers from one of the six largest energy suppliers who had been on a standard variable tariff for three years or more. Overall, 22.4% of customers in the trial switched. Ofgem plans a larger collective switching trial later this autumn.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/09/2018 15:14:51 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

964120

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: Competition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has plans to introduce an automatic registration scheme with an opt-out mechanism for the collective switching programme on energy tariffs.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	169037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>Ofgem are implementing a number of remedies which aim to increase engagement for those customers that have been on standard variable tariffs for 3 or more years. Following their first trial between February and April this year Ofgem plans to run second collective switching trial this autumn.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/09/2018 15:20:30 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

964139

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	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
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 25 July 2018 to Question 164267 on Wind Power: Seas and Oceans, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of the recommendation by the National Infrastructure Commission’s to move offshore wind into Pot 1.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	168979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government will respond to the National Infrastructure Commission’s Assessment in due course but there are no plans to move offshore wind into Pot 1.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/09/2018 15:18:09 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff