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date	22/01/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will conduct an impact assessment on freezing energy bills on the energy sector and its potential effect on the workforce that sector employs.
tabling member constituency	Morecambe and Lunesdale
tabling member printed	David Morris
uin	221785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>Our overall assessment is that a price freeze would have a negative impact on energy prices by increasing regulatory risk, decreasing the incentives for companies to cut prices, and could also have a detrimental impact on investment. A more risk averse approach to investment could affect supplier decisions regarding the size of their workforce.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 27/01/2015 15:36:58 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4135 label Biography information for David Morris

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registered interest
date	20/01/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department has spent on collective switching initiatives since 2010; and how many customers have switched specifically as part of those initiatives.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	221398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>Since 2010, the Department has awarded £5,010,706 of support to collective switching schemes through the Cheaper Energy Together scheme. Over the short period that this fund was available between December 2012 and March 2013, the number of customers who switched was 21,641.</p><p>Since then local councils and consumers switching sites have continued to run schemes to help consumers switch together, saving them more than £10 million.</p><p>The Department has published an assessment of schemes supported by the Cheaper Energy Together scheme, which is available at this link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/253862/Helping_Customers_Switch_Collective_Switching_and_Beyond_final__2_.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/253862/Helping_Customers_Switch_Collective_Switching_and_Beyond_final__2_.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 27/01/2015 15:34:45 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock attachment 1 file name Helping_Customers_Switch_Collective_Switching_and_Beyond_final__2_.pdf title Helping Customers Switch
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

173920

registered interest
date	15/01/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2014 to Question 219579, if he will make it his policy to direct energy suppliers to withdraw charges imposed on customers solely for the purpose of covering the cost of gas metering and billing where a customer does not use that service.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	220887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The standing charge element of the bill is commonly associated with covering the costs of, amongst other things, metering and billing as these are costs which the supplier will incur regardless of if any gas is consumed. These costs include the administrative costs of maintaining a customer account and providing bills and the cost of reading the meter and undertaking a periodic safety check. A supplier will also still be required to pay charges to the local gas network company for maintaining the connection and the distribution network which enables supply.</p><p>If a customer does not wish to pay a standing charge they can switch to a supplier with a tariff which features a standing charge set at zero.</p><p>Ofgem has been clear that consumers in vulnerable situations should not have to pay a standing charge if they are not consuming gas at all and should not have to pay for the removal of their meter, should this be appropriate, and has written to suppliers confirming this.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 27/01/2015 15:01:20 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe