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date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Bureaucracy: EU Action
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent steps he has taken at a EU level to reduce bureaucracy.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	216821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government continues to attach high priority to the reduction of unnecessary EU bureaucracy. We have called on the European Commission to step up its efforts in this area, and we therefore welcome the fact that the Commission has created the new post of First Vice-President (Frans Timmermans) with specific responsibility for Better Regulation across the entire Commission.</p><p> </p><p>We succeeded in securing agreement on very positive Conclusions at the 4 December EU Competitiveness Council, which call on the EU institutions to enhance efforts to reduce the overall regulatory burden, and call on the Commission to develop and put in place reduction targets in particularly burdensome areas, especially for SMEs.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, as I reported in my Written Ministerial Statement of 6 November (Column 51WS), since October 2013, 10 out of the 30 recommendations of the Business Taskforce report, “Cut EU red tape”, have been achieved, saving businesses over £200 million, as highlighted in the Taskforce’s progress report published last month at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cut-eu-red-tape-business-taskforce-report-one-year-on" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cut-eu-red-tape-business-taskforce-report-one-year-on</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/12/2014 15:42:06 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 31971 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

167398

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Service Industries: EU Action
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress he has made on services liberalisation at an EU level; and if he will make statement.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	216820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Following the introduction of the EU services directive, the UK has been a leader in pushing for consistent implementation across member states. More recently, the UK published a non-paper on further services liberalisation which has been widely shared in Europe. Its recommendations have attracted considerable support. We have seen positive signals on services liberalisation from the new Single Market Commissioner, Elżbieta Bieńkowska, in her keynote speech on 18<sup>th</sup> November and services liberalisation also features in the Commission’s recently published ‘Investment Plan for Europe’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/12/2014 15:41:15 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 31968 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

167469

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
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 Supply: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of rural off gas grid households in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) each county in each.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
uin	216901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>Estimates of the number of off gas properties are available at country, Local Authority and lower layer super output area level within Great Britain. These are not split by rural or urban classification. It is estimated that in 2012 the number of off gas properties in each country was:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Country</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Per cent</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>10 per cent</p></td><td><p>2,209,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>18 per cent</p></td><td><p>437,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>15 per cent</p></td><td><p>195,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Great Britain</p></td><td><p>11 per cent</p></td><td><p>2,826,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Estimates for local authority are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-national-estimates-of-households-not-connected-to-the-gas-network" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-national-estimates-of-households-not-connected-to-the-gas-network</a>.</p><p>Estimates for 2013 will be published on 18 December 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/12/2014 13:37:41 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 32336 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

167471

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
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 Companies Obligation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households that benefited from Affordable Warmth measures whose primary fuel type was not mains gas were using each type of fuel up to 30 June 2014.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
uin	216903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/12/2014 13:42:14 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 32334 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir