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1506857

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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 Oil: Northern Ireland
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 impact of price increases for home heating oil on consumers in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Foyle
tabling member printed	Colum Eastwood
uin	52071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>The matter is devolved to the administration in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 28/09/2022 14:14:23 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4846 label Biography information for Colum Eastwood

1506871

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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: River Severn
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 plans to maximise the potential of tidal flows on the River Severn to generate electricity from (a) barrage or (b) tidal lagoons.
tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
uin	51486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government remains open to considering well-developed proposals for harnessing the tidal range energy in the bays and estuaries around our coastlines, including barrage schemes and other alternatives. Any such proposal would need to demonstrate strong evidence of value for money in the context of other low-carbon technologies, as well as details of its associated energy system benefits and environmental impact mitigation strategies before the Government could take a view on its potential case for support.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 28/09/2022 14:13:41 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1506872

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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: Storage
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 plans to increase national energy storage potential by using grid-scale batteries.
tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
uin	51487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government is facilitating the deployment of electricity storage at all scales, including grid-scale batteries, through the joint BEIS and Ofgem Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan published in 2021.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 28/09/2022 14:12:43 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1506887

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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 discussions he has had with Ofgem on energy companies’ policies on responding to issues with customers’ smart meters.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	51898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy works closely with Ofgem to monitor suppliers' performance.</p><p> </p><p>Energy suppliers are required by licence conditions to take all reasonable steps to ensure their customers' smart meters are fully functional. Ofgem is responsible for regulating energy suppliers against these obligations and against the Standards of Conduct, which set out expectations regarding behaviour and customer service.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 28/09/2022 14:10:54 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1506888

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact on consumer energy bills of (a) faults and (b) loss of smart function in smart meters.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	51899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>Over half of energy meters in Great Britain are now smart meters. The vast majority are operating as intended, providing consumers with automatic meter readings and near-real time usage information via the In-Home Display. Estimates, based on the current typical household bill, indicate the rollout is delivering over £0.5 billion in annual bill savings.</p><p> </p><p>Allowances for operational factors such as maintenance or faults are already factored into industry’s cost bases. Energy suppliers have commercial incentives to ensure these costs are minimised, including having active programmes to address faults where they do exist.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 28/09/2022 14:12:14 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1506914

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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
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 operation of the discretionary support fund for heating network customers, will applications to the fund be received by (a) households applying individually or (b) the property management companies who have purchased gas and electricity commercially on their behalf.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	51696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>In respect of their heating costs, those on communal heating networks will primarily benefit through the Energy Bill Relief Scheme, details of which were announced on 21 September. They will also receive support in respect of their electricity costs through the Energy Price Guarantee and the Energy Bills Support Scheme. Individuals and property management companies will not need to apply for any of this support. For those heat network customers that will not receive the Energy Bills Support Scheme automatically through their electricity bills, equivalent support will be provided, and more details will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 28/09/2022 14:08:53 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1506915

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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
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 operation of the discretionary support fund for heating network customers, if he will take steps to ensure that any saving made by property management companies purchasing gas and electricity commercially on their behalf will be passed on to households.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	51697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>In respect of their heating costs, those on communal heating networks will primarily benefit through the Energy Bill Relief Scheme, details of which were announced on 21 September. They will also receive support in respect of their electricity costs through the Energy Price Guarantee and the Energy Bills Support Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 28/09/2022 14:09:28 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1506916

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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
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 operation of the discretionary support fund for heating network customers, what the meaning is of discretionary in this instance; and if he will place a copy of the qualifying criteria in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	51698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government will release further information on the fund which will support the reduction of energy bills for consumers on communal networks through public announcements as quickly as possible. This announcement will include details regarding the qualifying criteria.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 28/09/2022 14:10:07 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1506917

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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: Research
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 invest in research on the (a) improvement and (b) optimisation of tidal power.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	51645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>In July this year over 40MW of new tidal stream capacity was procured via the government’s flagship Contracts for Difference scheme. This contract award will enable tidal stream developers to gain operational experience and work on improving and optimising their technologies. Tidal stream continues to be eligible for a suite of competitively allocated Net Zero innovation grant funding opportunities, with the Government having spent over £80m on marine energy innovation since 2010.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 28/09/2022 14:07:22 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1506918

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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
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 the Government has made an assessment of potential sites for new tidal power sites.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	51646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>The identification and leasing of marine energy sites is a matter for the Crown Estate and the Crown Estate Scotland.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 28/09/2022 14:07:46 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy