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1585199

registered interest
date	08/02/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Ofgem: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to take steps to (a) improve and (b) regularly assess Ofgem's effectiveness as a regulator.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	141723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>The energy market is currently facing unprecedented challenges.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem recognises how its regulatory approach over the last 18 months has contributed to supplier failure and the related issues within the energy supply market. Ofgem is therefore taking steps to ensure that the supply market is more robust. This includes a package of reforms designed to bolster consumer protection and ensure energy suppliers are more resilient to market shocks.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 20/02/2023 18:04:05 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1585245

registered interest
date	08/02/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Boilers: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether it is his Department's policy to continue with the proposed 2026 boiler ban for off-grid properties.
tabling member constituency	Ynys Môn
tabling member printed	Virginia Crosbie
uin	142887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government consulted on phasing out the installation of heating systems using high carbon fossil fuels in homes, businesses and public buildings in England off the gas grid during the 2020s. We will set out further details on these proposals when we respond to these consultations in due course.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 20/02/2023 17:59:23 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4859 label Biography information for Virginia Crosbie

1585277

registered interest
date	08/02/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the Minister for Energy and Climate's contribution to the Urgent Question of 6 February 2023 on Prepayment Meters: Ofgem Decision, when he plans to publish details of the proposed compensation scheme.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	142816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government will not publish details of a proposed compensation scheme. Specific matters of redress will be taken forward by Ofgem as the independent regulator. On 21 February Ofgem set out the next steps in its prepayment meter review. As part of this, Ofgem has told suppliers to act now to check that PPMs have been installed appropriately, and if rules have been broken, offer customers a reversal of installations and compensation payments where appropriate. Ofgem can also issue fines if necessary to address non-compliance.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 24/02/2023 14:07:11 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1585280

registered interest
date	08/02/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Utilities: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether the Government plans to give Ofgem additional powers to take enforcement action against suppliers who breach their licence conditions.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	142817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>There are no plans to give Ofgem further enforcement powers. My Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State wrote to Ofgem on 4 February welcoming their recent Market Compliance Reviews (MCR) and setting out the expectation that strong and immediate action is taken where suppliers have fallen short of their obligations.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem publishes details of its compliance and enforcement action on its website at: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ofgem.gov.uk%2Fenergy-policy-and-regulation%2Fcompliance-and-enforcement&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary.PQ%40BEIS.gov.uk%7C10aaced56c884959b3c308db136a8fdb%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C638125120624079729%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=rbmhkGlXLdjFM15mG0djVlNH%2FqIPUXQC3Ixj7HaAoXA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">www.ofgem.gov.uk/energy-policy-and-regulation/compliance-and-enforcement</a>.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 20/02/2023 17:57:55 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1585287

registered interest
date	08/02/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the Minister for Energy and Climate's contribution to the Urgent Question of 6 February 2023 on Prepayment Meters: Ofgem Decision, what the results were of the Government's investigation into decision-making on the process for obtaining warrants to forcibly install prepayment meters.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	142818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2023 answer text <p>Ofgem wrote to suppliers asking them to pause the installation of pre-payment meters under warrant until they had completed a review of how this work is carried out and managed. Ofgem will also be looking at the rules around mandatory moves to prepayment meters, when a court warrant can be applied for, and the steps that first need to be taken.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 24/02/2023 14:48:04 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1585289

registered interest
date	08/02/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the Minister for Energy and Climate's contribution to the Urgent Question of 6 February 2023 on Prepayment Meters: Ofgem Decision, over what time period the Government and Ofgem are investigating poor practice concerning prepayment meters.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	142819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2023 answer text <p>Ofgem has outlined the timescales for its Market Compliance Review on prepayment meters and remote switching. As per the letter on 15 February 2023, Ofgem published an update on the scope and timelines on 21 February 2023.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 24/02/2023 13:52:20 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1585297

registered interest
date	08/02/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an estimate of how many households have been forced onto prepayment meters (a) by warrant and (b) via remote switching since the start of December 2022.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	142820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government has asked energy suppliers to share data on the number of warrants that they have requested for the forcible fitting of prepayment meters; this request has been backed by Ofgem who have encouraged suppliers to be transparent with their data.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, Ofgem has announced a Market Compliance Review focused on remote switching and forced installations to assess if suppliers have wrongly been switching customers to prepayment meters and will take action if licence conditions are found to have been breached.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 20/02/2023 17:58:53 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1585310

registered interest
date	08/02/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Energy Bills Rebate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an estimate of the average number of days that elapse between a direct debit payment being taken from a customer's account by an energy supplier and the issuance of an Energy Bill Support Scheme payment to that customer.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	142734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2023 answer text <p>Direct debit (DD) customers are receiving their monthly Energy Bills Support Scheme payments from electricity suppliers either as a reduction to the DD amount collected, or as a refund to the customer’s bank account following the DD collection. The Direction for the scheme requires that any such refunds are issued immediately after taking the usual DD payment from the customer. Suppliers are required to report to government on delivery and data is being published monthly. No data has been collated specifically on the average number of days between a DD payment and the EBSS discount being applied.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 24/02/2023 14:02:46 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1585315

registered interest
date	08/02/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Nuclear Reactors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department is taking steps to speed up the approval process for modular nuclear reactors.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	142880
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government invested up to £12m with the UK’s nuclear regulators between 2017 and 2022 under the Nuclear Innovation Programme, to build regulatory capability for small and advanced modular reactors (SMR and AMR).</p><p> </p><p>With this funding, the regulators modernised the Generic Design Assessment process introducing efficiencies while maintaining rigour and updated their Technical Assessment Guidance and Assessment Principles for regulating SMRs and AMRs.</p><p> </p><p>As outlined in the British Energy Security Strategy, the Government will work with the regulators to understand the potential for additional streamlining or removing of duplication from the regulation of new nuclear power stations.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 24/02/2023 14:48:14 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1585381

registered interest
date	08/02/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Heat Network Efficiency Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many applications there have been for (a) revenue and (b) capital grants under the Heat Network Efficiency Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	142714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>The Heat Network Efficiency Scheme (HNES), the £32m grant programme, opened for applications on Tuesday 7<sup>th</sup> February 2023 with the first funding round closing to applicants on 31<sup>st</sup> March 2023. As of 8<sup>th</sup> February 2023 the Government has not received any applications (revenue or capital), nor allocated any funding.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 20/02/2023 18:02:18 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra