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1123578

registered interest
date	29/04/2019
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	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 steps he is taking to protect customers from the potential negative effects of collapse of energy retail companies.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	248725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2019 answer text <p>Where an energy supplier fails its customers are quickly transferred to another supplier appointed by Ofgem and their account balances are protected. Ofgem are considering a range of options to limit consumers’ exposure to the costs of supplier failures and plan to consult further in the summer.</p><p> </p><p>The choice for consumers has increased from 13 suppliers in 2010 to around 60 now, with a wide range of innovative tariffs, competitive prices and low-carbon products.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/05/2019 15:02:44 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1038491

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
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	Electrical Goods: Environment Protection
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 plans to adopt the EU Ecodesign Directive on improving the environmental performance of appliances after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	206877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department laid a Statutory Instrument in Parliament on 19<sup>th</sup> December 2018 which will bring all direct EU Ecodesign legislation that is operative before exit day into UK law. This will ensure that all existing minimum energy performance standards for energy-using products remain in force after the UK leaves the EU. I expect this to be debated in Parliament in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 15/01/2019 14:57:19 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1028657

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
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	Climate Change: Greater London
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 accuracy of the statement by the Mayor of London that there is a climate emergency.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	203937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>Climate change is one of the most urgent and pressing challenges we face today.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is a world leader in cutting emissions while growing the economy. We recognise the need to go further, which is why we have set out ambitious plans to reduce emissions through the 2020s and commissioned the Committee on Climate Change to provide advice on the implications of the Paris Agreement for the UK’s long-term emissions reduction targets, including on setting a net zero target.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/01/2019 15:40:37 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

926726

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
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	District Heating: Regulation
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 regulate district heating.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	154758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The Clean Growth Strategy committed to assessing the sector’s future market framework. The Department will consider the recommendations from an industry taskforce published in January 2018 and the CMA’s final recommendations in developing an appropriate future market framework that will deliver benefits for consumers and growth for the sector.</p><p> </p><p>District heating has significant potential to reduce energy bills and carbon. We are investing £320m in the sector through the Heat Networks Investment Project launching in the autumn to ensure consumers benefit from this opportunity and get a fair deal; a number of pilot projects have already received funding.</p><p> </p><p>In the 2017 Clean Growth Strategy <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-growth-strategy" target="_blank">BEIS assessed</a> the carbon cost-effectiveness of various technologies including district heating systems at an estimated £184/tCO2e for domestic district heating (undiscounted, 2015 prices), and £224/CO2e for non-domestic district heating. These figures do not account for the network benefits of district heating systems and the option value of exploiting future low-carbon heating technologies at large-scale.</p><p> </p><p>The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014 require heat suppliers to install individual heat meters in all newly constructed buildings connected to district heat networks. The regulations require that bills for those metered properties are accurate, based on actual consumption, and that they clearly set out how the bill was calculated.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 154759 154760 question first answered 27/06/2018 16:05:03 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

926727

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
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	District Heating: Cost Effectiveness
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 recent assessment his Department has made of the cost effectiveness of district heating systems.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	154759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The Clean Growth Strategy committed to assessing the sector’s future market framework. The Department will consider the recommendations from an industry taskforce published in January 2018 and the CMA’s final recommendations in developing an appropriate future market framework that will deliver benefits for consumers and growth for the sector.</p><p> </p><p>District heating has significant potential to reduce energy bills and carbon. We are investing £320m in the sector through the Heat Networks Investment Project launching in the autumn to ensure consumers benefit from this opportunity and get a fair deal; a number of pilot projects have already received funding.</p><p> </p><p>In the 2017 Clean Growth Strategy <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-growth-strategy" target="_blank">BEIS assessed</a> the carbon cost-effectiveness of various technologies including district heating systems at an estimated £184/tCO2e for domestic district heating (undiscounted, 2015 prices), and £224/CO2e for non-domestic district heating. These figures do not account for the network benefits of district heating systems and the option value of exploiting future low-carbon heating technologies at large-scale.</p><p> </p><p>The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014 require heat suppliers to install individual heat meters in all newly constructed buildings connected to district heat networks. The regulations require that bills for those metered properties are accurate, based on actual consumption, and that they clearly set out how the bill was calculated.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 154758 154760 question first answered 27/06/2018 16:05:03 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

926728

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
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	District Heating: Billing
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 energy firms produce clear and transparent billing for district heating in new developments.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	154760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The Clean Growth Strategy committed to assessing the sector’s future market framework. The Department will consider the recommendations from an industry taskforce published in January 2018 and the CMA’s final recommendations in developing an appropriate future market framework that will deliver benefits for consumers and growth for the sector.</p><p> </p><p>District heating has significant potential to reduce energy bills and carbon. We are investing £320m in the sector through the Heat Networks Investment Project launching in the autumn to ensure consumers benefit from this opportunity and get a fair deal; a number of pilot projects have already received funding.</p><p> </p><p>In the 2017 Clean Growth Strategy <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-growth-strategy" target="_blank">BEIS assessed</a> the carbon cost-effectiveness of various technologies including district heating systems at an estimated £184/tCO2e for domestic district heating (undiscounted, 2015 prices), and £224/CO2e for non-domestic district heating. These figures do not account for the network benefits of district heating systems and the option value of exploiting future low-carbon heating technologies at large-scale.</p><p> </p><p>The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014 require heat suppliers to install individual heat meters in all newly constructed buildings connected to district heat networks. The regulations require that bills for those metered properties are accurate, based on actual consumption, and that they clearly set out how the bill was calculated.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 154758 154759 question first answered 27/06/2018 16:05:03 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

894984

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
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	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, whether he supports the UK offshore wind industry’s ambition to produce one third of UK electricity from offshore wind by 2030.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	139549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The UK has the largest installed offshore wind capacity in the world, with around 7GW operational. This will rise to around 10GW by 2020, when we expect offshore wind to provide around 10% of the UK’s annual electricity generation.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the Clean Growth Strategy, the Government is working with industry as they develop their proposal for an ambitious Sector Deal for offshore wind, which could result in 10 gigawatts of new capacity, with the opportunity for additional deployment if this is cost effective, built in the 2020s.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/05/2018 11:48:44 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

891317

registered interest
date	25/04/2018
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	Fuel Poverty: Greater London
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 recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of fuel poverty in (a) Lewisham borough and (b) London.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	138076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows the number and proportion of households living in fuel poverty in Lewisham and London between 2014 and 2015 (latest data available).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Lewisham</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>London</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Fuel Poor Households</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percent Fuel Poor</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Fuel Poor Households</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percent Fuel Poor</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>12,300</p></td><td><p>10.5%</p></td><td><p>348,000</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>12,000</p></td><td><p>10.2%</p></td><td><p>335,000</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Household figures for Lewisham are rounded to the nearest 100 and proportion of fuel poor to the nearest 1 decimal place</p><p>*Household figures for London are rounded to the nearest 1,000 and proportion of fuel poor to the nearest whole number</p><p> </p><p>Due to the relative nature of the fuel poverty measure, the proportion of households in fuel poverty fluctuates between 10% and 12% at the national level.</p><p> </p><p>The latest sub-regional fuel poverty statistics can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-sub-regional-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-sub-regional-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/05/2018 16:59:17 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

857724

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
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	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, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect of the removal of feed-in tariffs for solar energy on the viability of the solar energy industry.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	131625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>A consultation on the Feed-in Tariffs scheme will be published in due course. An impact assessment to accompany this is being prepared.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 131626 question first answered 22/03/2018 11:27:38 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

857725

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
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	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, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect of removing feed-in tariffs for solar energy on the ability of local authorities to invest in solar energy.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	131626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>A consultation on the Feed-in Tariffs scheme will be published in due course. An impact assessment to accompany this is being prepared.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 131625 question first answered 22/03/2018 11:27:38 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft