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1568716

registered interest
date	19/01/2023
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 Bills Discount Scheme: Swimming Pools
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 of excluding swimming pools from a support scheme for energy intensive businesses.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	127893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2023 answer text <p>During the review of the Energy Bill Relief Scheme, contributions from the private sector, trade associations, the voluntary sector and other types of organisations were assessed. These included leisure centres and swimming pools.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has taken a consistent approach to identify the most energy and trade intensive sectors, with all sectors that meet agreed thresholds for energy and trade intensity eligible for Energy and Trade Intensive Industries support. These thresholds have been set at sectors falling above the 80th percentile for energy intensity, and 60th percentile for trade intensity, plus any sectors eligible for the existing energy compensation and exemption schemes.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 26/01/2023 13:19:44 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1568719

registered interest
date	19/01/2023
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 Bills Discount Scheme: Swimming Pools
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 his Department will review the decision to exclude swimming pools from high energy business support schemes.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	127894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2023 answer text <p>There are currently no plans to review the list of Energy and Trade Intensive Industries eligible for support under the Energy Bill Discount Scheme. The Government has taken a consistent approach to identify the most energy and trade intensive sectors, with all sectors that meet agreed thresholds for energy and trade intensity eligible for Energy and Trade Intensive Industries support. These thresholds have been set at sectors falling above the 80th percentile for energy intensity, and 60th percentile for trade intensity, plus any sectors eligible for the existing energy compensation and exemption schemes.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 26/01/2023 14:40:54 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1546441

registered interest
date	29/11/2022
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 Bills Rebate: 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 recent estimate his Department has made of the number and proportion of households with submeters that will not receive the Energy Bills Support Scheme payment.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	98814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government has not made an estimate of the number and proportion of households with submeters that will not receive the Energy Bills Support Scheme payment. However, the Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Funding will provide a £400 discount off energy bills for the small percentage of households that will not be reached through the Energy Bills Support Scheme. Details on delivery mechanisms, eligibility and timing will be announced shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 07/12/2022 10:10:15 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart previous answer version 40140 answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1536406

registered interest
date	26/10/2022
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 Bills Rebate
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 made an assessment of the potential implications of variations in regional energy distribution costs for the Energy Bills Support Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	72452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 answer text <p>The Energy Bills Support Scheme is a broad based scheme which recognises that the high costs of energy are being felt by many households across the UK this winter. The Government has worked at pace to ensure the benefits are felt this winter. No assessment has been made of the implications of variations in regional energy distribution costs.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 03/11/2022 17:07:17 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1520569

registered interest
date	11/10/2022
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 Bills Rebate: 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, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals on ensuring landlords pass the Energy Bill Support Scheme (EBSS) discount on to tenants who pay all-inclusive bills.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	61326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government introduced the Energy Prices Bill in Parliament on 12th October. The Bill includes provisions to require landlords to pass benefits received from the Energy Price Guarantee, Energy Bills Support Scheme, or Energy Bill Relief Scheme as appropriate to tenants who pay all-inclusive bills.</p><p> </p><p>The legislation makes clear that intermediaries must pass the benefits to the end user. The government will introduce regulations to allow end users to recover any benefits they are due as a debt if they do not receive them by a specified period. This means that end users will be able to pursue recovery of benefits through civil proceedings.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 18/10/2022 16:41:52 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1519688

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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	Hydrogen: 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, what steps he will take to increase levels of investment in Green Hydrogen in (a) Cheshire (b) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	60046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The recent Energy Security Strategy doubled our ambition from 5GW to 10GW of low carbon production capacity by 2030 with at least half of this coming from ‘green’ electrolytic hydrogen. This included a commitment to host yearly electrolytic allocation funding rounds for projects across the UK, which combines Hydrogen Business Model revenue support with optional CAPEX funding through the Net Zero Hydrogen Fund. Together with a clear policy and regulatory environment, we expect to mobilise over £9 billion of private investment in production alone across the UK by 2030, which will benefit the hydrogen economy across the UK.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 18/10/2022 16:33:54 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1519689

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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	Renewable 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 assessment he has made of the potential merits of decoupling the cost of electricity using renewables from the wholesale price of gas.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	60047
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The recently introduced Energy Prices Bill includes powers to help address the link between high global gas prices and the cost of low-carbon electricity, allowing consumers to benefit from the ‘green dividend’ of low-priced clean energy.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has launched the Review of Electricity Market Arrangements. It considers a range of enduring reforms, including ways of increasing investment in low-carbon capacity, making gas-fired generation the price-setter for electricity less often, and reforms to the wholesale market so volatile gas prices do not set the price of cheaper renewables, which could have the effect of decoupling gas and electricity prices.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 18/10/2022 17:12:37 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1519690

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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	Park Homes: 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 he is taking to help reduce energy bills for tenants and residents of park homes.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	60048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>On the 29th July, the Government set out further details of the Energy Bills Support Scheme (EBSS) and, as part of this package, the Government confirmed that further funding will be available to provide equivalent support for park home residents.</p><p> </p><p>The details of the Energy Bill Relief Scheme were announced on 21 September 2022. The Government is working to ensure businesses and other organisations pass on the benefits under this scheme through to the end user in a reasonable and proportionate way. This will ensure additional support for tenants and park home residents.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 18/10/2022 16:34:01 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1519691

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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	Housing: Insulation
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 support his Department will provide to help insulate uninsulated homes in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	60049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government provides support to households to improve their energy efficiency. The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund, Home Upgrade Grant, and Local Authority Delivery schemes will deliver energy efficiency upgrades to around half a million homes. The Energy Company Obligation (ECO) has also been extended until March 2026 at an increased value of £1 billion per year.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 18/10/2022 17:11:49 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1507264

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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	Fracking: Cheshire
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 he has made of the potential environmental impact of shale gas extraction on communities in (a) Weaver Vale constituency and (b) Cheshire.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	53498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2022 answer text <p>Exploration or development of shale gas will need to meet rigorous safety and environmental standards, including those set by the Environment Agency and the Health and Safety Executive.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 06/10/2022 14:44:28 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury