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758325

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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	Small Businesses: Northamptonshire
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 small businesses are registered in Northamptonshire; how many such businesses were registered in Northamptonshire in 2010; and what assessment he has made of the health of the local business environment in that county.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	9277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Northamptonshire has 30,665 registered small/micro private sector businesses with fewer than 50 employees in 2016, compared to 24,175 in 2010 (ONS).</p><p>Velocity Growth Hub, through its Northamptonshire spoke, supported 1385 businesses in 2016/17 to start and grow.</p><p>The Midland Engine Investment Fund provides access to finance for businesses, accelerating economic growth and job creation.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 12/09/2017 15:23:56 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

758326

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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 Heat Incentive Scheme: Costs
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 average cost per kilowatt of capacity has been of installations made under the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.
tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
uin	9303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>The Department has produced official statistics on the average cost per kilowatt of capacity for the Non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), split by technology, up to July 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Details can be seen: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rhi-deployment-data-july-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rhi-deployment-data-july-2017</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/09/2017 14:36:38 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer

758331

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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 Heat Incentive 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, how many installations made under the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme have been found to be non-compliant.
tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
uin	9176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>To date Ofgem has identified 944 non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive installations as being non-compliant.</p><p>This figure includes non-compliances with or without a financial impact.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/09/2017 14:43:37 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer

758332

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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 Heat Incentive Scheme: Boilers
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 businesses have had boilers installed under the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme; and how many of those boilers will be inspected as part of the National Audit Office's study into that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
uin	9175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>The Non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme offers support for a range of renewable heat technologies. As of end July 2017, there were 18,904 full applications to the Non-domestic RHI.</p><p> </p><p>The National Audit Office operates independently of the Department. As such, we are not able to comment on their fieldwork plans.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/09/2017 14:38:24 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer

758333

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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 Heat Incentive Scheme: Fraud
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 cases of fraud have been brought by Ofgem under the (a) non-domestic and (b) domestic Renewable Heat Incentive schemes.
tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
uin	9177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>To date the figures supplied by Ofgem are as follows;</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Action Fraud Referrals</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Open Cases</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Closed cases</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Non-Domestic RHI</strong></p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Domestic RHI</strong></p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/09/2017 14:40:25 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer

758334

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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: Insolvency
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 the Answer of 6 July 2017 to Question 1697, what provisions and safeguards he has made to ensure that where a disused shale gas well needs decommissioning or maintenance and the company responsible is insolvent that the costs incurred do not fall to the taxpayer either locally or nationally.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	9178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>The regulatory framework has provisions in place to ensure wells can be decommissioned with no need for on-going attention.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the petroleum licensing process, and prior to awarding a licence, the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) assesses whether a company has adequate financial capacity for its planned operations. The OGA also checks at the drilling and, where relevant, production stage that the company has sufficient funding and appropriate insurance.</p><p> </p><p>From the outset a shale gas operator is required to design and construct an oil and gas well with a view to its safe decommissioning. HSE specialist inspectors scrutinise these plans to ensure the well can be abandoned safely.</p><p> </p><p>At the end of the life of a well, The Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction, etc.) Regulations 1996 requires all oil and gas wells to be abandoned in such a way that there can be no escape of fluids from the well or from the reservoir associated with it, so far as is reasonably practicable.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 13/09/2017 14:35:01 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

758360

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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	Diesel Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the investigation by the German anti-trust authorities into German car manufacturers that are alleged to have operated a cartel and colluded to misrepresent diesel emissions; whether they intend to report those companies to the National Crime Agency to investigate whether any UK directors and managers were involved; and if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL1364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>Investigations into alleged anti-competitive practices are a matter for the independent competition authorities – the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and, where relevant, the European Commission.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 13/09/2017 12:26:39 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

759503

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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
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 the Government plans for the UK to remain in the internal energy market after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	900803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government is currently considering all aspects of its future relationship with the EU, including the arrangements for trading energy.</p><p> </p><p>As my Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State has told the House there are great advantages in having continued access to free markets. Energy is an area in which there is strong alignment of interests between the UK and EU.</p><p> </p><p>Our priority is maintaining affordable, clean and secure energy supplies for businesses and households.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 12/09/2017 15:21:16 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

759504

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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	Industry: Productivity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, to ask the Secretary of State what steps he is taking to improve productivity as part of the Industrial Strategy
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	900804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Our Industrial Strategy’s aim is to boost earning power and productivity across the country. We will build on the UK’s world class expertise in industries such as the automotive sector in the North East, underpinned by Nissan in Sunderland, one of Europe’s most productive plants.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 12/09/2017 15:40:15 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

759505

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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	Productivity: Training
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 has taken to develop skills and technical education to encourage productivity growth.
tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
uin	900801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>My hon. Friend will know that, at its heart, our modern Industrial Strategy will be about ensuring everyone has the opportunity to improve their skills, particularly through reforming technical education. Investing in skills and ensuring people have the right information to make choices on their career options in all parts of the country, is one of the most powerful things we can do to boost individual earning power and business productivity.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 12/09/2017 15:22:32 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti