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1185421

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date	16/03/2020
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	Housing: 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 estimate he has made of the percentage of Energy Company Obligation funding that has been spent on identifying suitable homes for energy efficiency measures.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	29932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>The costs for identifying suitable homes has been estimated at around £257m for the three and a half year duration of ECO3 (2018 – 2022). That would be around 11% of the total estimated cost of the scheme.</p><p> </p><p>These costs include finding suitable homes whose residents are eligible and willing to have energy efficiency measures installed.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 24/03/2020 17:34:48 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1185422

registered interest
date	16/03/2020
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	Housing: 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, how many energy efficiency measures were installed through the obligation trading route in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	29933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>In the Clean Growth Strategy, Government set an aspiration for as many homes as possible to be Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) Band C by 2035, where practical, cost-effective and affordable. We are developing policies and measures that will help to build a sustainable market for energy efficiency.</p><p> </p><p>The Energy Company Obligation Scheme provides support for low income and vulnerable households. Since ECO launched it has delivered energy efficiency measures to more than 2 million households. ECO, or a successor scheme, will continue to drive at least £640 million investment per year in home energy efficiency until 2028.</p><p> </p><p>A total of 793 energy efficiency measures were installed through the Energy Company Obligation’s trading route (ECO Brokerage) from the start of January 2019 to the end of December 2019.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 24/03/2020 17:36:51 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1185423

registered interest
date	16/03/2020
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 Company Obligation and Warm Home Discount Scheme
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 estimate he has made of the number of energy customers that do not contribute to the (a) Energy Company Obligation and (b) Warm Homes Discount as a result of being with a smaller supplier.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	29934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>The current threshold for participation in the Energy Company Obligation and Warm Home Discount is 200,000 domestic customer accounts and this is changing to 150,000 customer accounts from 1 April this year.</p><p> </p><p>In the final stage impact assessment for ECO3, published in October 2018, we estimated that suppliers over the 200,000 threshold covered 96% of the market and those over 150,000 covered 99%. While the number of energy suppliers in the market and their customer numbers fluctuate, we expect the current market coverage to be similar now.</p><p> </p><p>How energy suppliers pass on their costs depends on their individual pricing decisions.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 24/03/2020 15:56:29 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1185429

registered interest
date	16/03/2020
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	Private Rented Housing: 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 his Department has taken to ensure that energy efficiency measures are implemented in the private rented sector.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	29940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p><em>The Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property)(England and wales) Regulations 2015</em> require that, subject to certain exemptions, domestic and non-domestic private rented sector landlords improve their properties to a minimum energy efficiency rating of E by: April 2020 for domestic property; and April 2023 for non-domestic property.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has published detailed guidance to assist landlords in complying with their obligations under the existing regulations, and is conducting enforcement pilots with Local Authorities to develop best practice around enforcement of the regulations. The Department has also launched a landlord exemptions register, a requirement of the Regulations, which is used by enforcement authorities to help target their enforcement activities.</p><p> </p><p>On 15 October 2019, the government published a consultation on the future target for the non-domestic private rented sector regulations alongside the government’s response to the Committee on Climate Change Progress Report. The consultation, which closed on 7 January 2020, set out that the government’s preferred target was for all non-domestic rented buildings to achieve an EPC Band B by 2030, where cost-effective. A government response is due to be published later this year. The government will also consult in due course on options for tightening the standards required of domestic private rented properties over time.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 24/03/2020 17:56:09 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1185431

registered interest
date	16/03/2020
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	Housing: Health
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 responsibilities his Department has for ensuring that homes and buildings are healthy for its occupants.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	29942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>As part of the impact assessments of our policies, we include the benefits to a household’s health from improving their homes’ thermal performance.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is the lead department for standards in buildings.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 24/03/2020 14:33:42 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham