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993538

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Contracts
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 many and what proportion of staff of companies subcontracted by his Department are BAME.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	182889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy does not hold records on the number of staff employed by companies subcontracted for the provision of services.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 26/10/2018 13:51:03 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

993539

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Contracts
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 many and what proportion of staff of companies subcontracted by Department are BAME.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	182891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy does not hold records on the number of staff employed by companies subcontracted for the provision of services.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 26/10/2018 13:51:52 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

993583

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Public 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, what the change was to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills' budget in real and cash terms in each year from 2010-11 to 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	182819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>Business Innovation and Skills’ (BIS) budgets decreased by 6.5%, in real terms, between 2010 and 2017 (14.9% decrease in cash terms). The year on year decrease is as follows:</p><p> </p><p>Note: “BIS budgets” refers to total Departmental Expenditure Limits, excluding depreciation, taken from Departmental Estimates. The 2016-17 figures are based on the Main Estimate due to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) was created in July 2016.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Change from previous year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Real</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cash</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>-8.1%</p></td><td><p>-9.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>-1.5%</p></td><td><p>-3.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>4.0%</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>-1.9%</p></td><td><p>-3.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>-3.3%</p></td><td><p>-4.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>4.5%</p></td><td><p>2.3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 26/10/2018 13:51:20 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

992829

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
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, if he will put in place immediately an export tariff regime for rooftop solar panels installed after March 2019; and for what reason such a regime is not already in place.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	182087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>We are considering responses to the recent Consultation proposing to close the Feed-in Tariffs (FIT) scheme, and the Call for Evidence on small-scale low-carbon generation. The Government will set out its response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 26/10/2018 10:47:08 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

991137

registered interest
date	19/10/2018
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	Cavity Insulation Guarantee Agency: Complaints
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 the process is for an appeal against the findings of a Cavity Insulation Guarantee Agency investigation.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	181586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>The Cavity Insultation Guarantee Agency (CIGA), an independent commercial organisation, has a standardised customer journey and resolution process which is detailed on their website: <a href="https://ciga.co.uk/consumer-concerns" target="_blank">https://ciga.co.uk/consumer-concerns</a>. Should a customer believe that CIGA staff have not followed this process they can raise a concern directly with the Chief Executive Officer or alternatively with CIGA’s Consumer Focus Non-Executive Director.</p><p> </p><p>If a Guarantee has been issued, but CIGA have not responded in a manner that is satisfactory to the consumer, the guarantee allows for any dispute between the householder and CIGA to be referred to arbitration. The Independent Arbitration service for customers is provided by the independent Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR). Their role is to provide a formal way to resolve disputes between CIGA or CIGA-registered installers and their customers, when other attempts to resolve a dispute have been unsuccessful.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 26/10/2018 13:52:09 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

991245

registered interest
date	19/10/2018
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 Oil and Liquefied Petroleum Gas: Private Rented Housing
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 many exemptions have been granted to landlords with off-gas grid properties using either (a) heating oil and (b) liquefied petroleum gas under Regulation 25 of the Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) Regulations 2015.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	181545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>Landlords of EPC F or G rated domestic privately rented properties may register an exemption under Regulation 25 if they have made all the relevant energy efficiency improvements available for their property and it remains below E, or if there are no relevant energy efficiency improvements that can be made. The gas-grid status is not a relevant factor in whether a property qualifies for this exemption.</p><p> </p><p>To the end of September, 2,194 exemptions have been registered under Regulation 25. A proportion of these may relate to off-gas grid properties, but this information is not required from the landlord when registering an exemption.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 26/10/2018 13:52:19 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

990340

registered interest
date	18/10/2018
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 Budgets
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason the Fourth and Fifth Carbon Budgets are not within the scope of his Department’s recent request to the Committee on Climate Change to advise on the implications of the Paris Climate Agreement and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on 1.5 degrees for the UK's long-term emissions reduction targets.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	181237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>We are leading the world in our response to the IPCC report – commissioning our independent experts, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), for advice on our long-term targets a week after publication of the IPCC report. The Climate Change Act 2008 establishes the functions of the CCC which include providing advice on the level of 2050 target, as well as providing advice in connection with carbon budgets. The CCC’s focus for this particular advice will rightly be on our long-term targets, including the costs, benefits and deliverability of more ambitious targets.</p><p> </p><p>The UK carbon budgets already set in legislation are among the most stringent in the world, requiring a 57% cut in emissions by 2028 - 2032 from a 1990 baseline. The Government’s focus is on delivering those challenging targets as part of our Clean Growth Strategy. As part of their ongoing analysis on our progress, the CCC already advise on a decarbonisation pathway that takes us on a steeper trajectory than legislated carbon budgets (see the CCC’s <a href="https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/reducing-uk-emissions-2018-progress-report-to-parliament/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a> of June this year).</p><p> </p><p>Under the Climate Change Act, the CCC will next advise us on carbon budget levels in 2020 when they set out their views on the sixth carbon budget (2033-2037).</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 26/10/2018 10:46:55 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

989488

registered interest
date	17/10/2018
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	Electricity Generation
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 it is the Government's policy to move away from using coal to generate electricity in the UK; and what assessment his Department has made of the effect of higher gas prices on the level of electricity generation from (a) coal and (b) gas.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	180812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ending the use of unabated coal for electricity generation by 2025. Government measures and support for low carbon technologies mean that coal has gone from generating 39% of the UK’s electricity in 2012 to 7% in 2017[i]. Coal’s share of electricity generation was 1.6% for 2018 Q2. Gas’ share of electricity generation was 42% for the same period[ii].</p><p> </p><p>The Department considers and analyses a range of future price scenarios and the effect on anticipated generation from coal and gas; a number of these scenarios are published as part of the BEIS Energy and Emissions Projections[iii]. Changes in gas prices are one of a number of factors that can affect the amount of coal and gas generation on the system at any particular time. Higher gas prices may incentivise some switching from gas to coal due to impacts on gas-fired power plants relative profitability in the short term. While there may be a small increase in the share of coal generation this winter, we do not expect these recent fluctuations to significantly affect the trajectory to the end of unabated coal by 2025.</p><p> </p><p>[i] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-chapter-5-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-chapter-5-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes</a></p><p>[ii] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends</a></p><p>[iii] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/energy-and-emissions-projections" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/energy-and-emissions-projections</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 26/10/2018 10:46:40 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

988672

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
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	Fracking: Finance
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 Written Statement of 17 May 2018 on Energy Policy, HCWS690, what (a) methodology and (b) data were used by his Department for the statement that shale gas companies could make set payments to communities with shale developments for up to £10m.
tabling member constituency	North East Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Lee Rowley
uin	180287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>The figure quoted is an industry estimate that has been modelled on scenarios in the Institute of Directors’ report entitled ‘Getting shale gas working’.</p><p> </p><p>The shale gas industry has made a commitment through its Community Engagement Charter[1], to provide benefits to local communities at locations where hydraulic fracturing takes place.</p><p> </p><p>[1] http://www.ukoog.org.uk/community/charter</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 26/10/2018 10:47:22 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley

988460

registered interest
date	15/10/2018
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	Local Government: Fuels
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to prioritise deliveries of fuel to local authorities after Brexit so that crucial local services, including public safety and waste collection and disposal, continue to operate.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL10659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Government has been implementing a significant programme of work to ensure the UK will be ready to leave the European Union from day one in all scenarios, including in the unlikely event of a ‘No Deal’ scenario in March 2019. Our priority is to maintain (as close as possible) normal fuel deliveries in any of these scenarios.</p><p>The Government believes that in most circumstances the fuel industry is well positioned to respond to disruptions to the supply chain from whatever cause. However, we also have a longstanding, all-risks National Emergency Plan for Fuel, which includes schemes for prioritising the delivery of fuel for essential services.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 26/10/2018 13:52:28 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham