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933774

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
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	Energy: 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 feed-in tariff applications have been made in respect of houses with an Energy Performance Certificate of (a) D or higher and (b) E or lower in the most recent 12 months for which data are available.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	159646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>In the period June 2017 to June 2018, 13,428 applications for the Feed-in-Tariff scheme were made in respect of premises where Ofgem know that it had an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) of level D or above. Ofgem does not hold data in relation to premises with FIT installations which have an EPC of level E or below</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/07/2018 14:35:01 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

933775

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
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: 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 the feed-in tariff rate for solar PV is for (a) houses with Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) of D or higher and (b) houses with EPCs of E or lower.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	159647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The Feed-In Tariff rates are published by Ofgem at <a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-programmes/fit/fit-tariff-rates" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-programmes/fit/fit-tariff-rates</a>. The current higher PV tariff of 3.93p per kWh is available for houses with EPCs of D or higher. The lower tariff of 0.25p per kWh is available for houses with EPCs of E or lower and those houses with an EPC of level D or above that was not issued before the commissioning date of the installation.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/07/2018 14:35:42 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

933796

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
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	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
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 his policy is on support for the UK offshore wind industry’s ambition to produce one third of UK electricity from offshore wind by 2030; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	159655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The UK has the largest installed offshore wind capacity in the world, with around 7GW operational. This will rise to around 10GW by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the Clean Growth Strategy, the Government is working with industry as they develop an ambitious Sector Deal for offshore wind, which could result in 10 gigawatts of new capacity, with the opportunity for additional deployment if this is cost effective, built in the 2020s.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/07/2018 14:40:15 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

933797

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
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	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
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 assessment he has made of the potential for offshore wind to deliver significant electricity system cost reductions by 2030.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	159656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>Offshore wind costs have fallen significantly over the last few years. The cheapest offshore wind projects in the 2017 Contract for Difference Allocation Round cleared 50% lower than the cheapest offshore wind project in the 2015 Contract for Difference Allocation Round. Going forward, the industry expects offshore wind costs to continue to fall.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/07/2018 14:39:02 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

933799

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
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, with reference to the Climate Change Act 2008, what assessment he has made of the potential performance of the UK in relation to the (i) third, (ii) fourth and (iii) fifth carbon budget.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	159658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The UK is projected to overachieve against the third carbon budget. Current projections for the fourth and fifth carbon budgets suggest that we could deliver 97 per cent and 95 per cent of our required performance against 1990 levels, and we are working to implement the ambitious policies and proposals set out in our Clean Growth Strategy to enable us to meet our future carbon budgets.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/07/2018 14:38:25 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

933800

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
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: 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, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of fracking on the UK meeting the targets of the (a) fourth carbon budget for 2023-2027 and (b) fifth carbon budget for 2028-2032.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	159659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>Our approach to meeting the fourth and fifth Carbon Budgets is set out in the Clean Growth Strategy. Continued use of natural gas from offshore and onshore sources is compatible with meeting our carbon budgets, and innovations in technologies such as Carbon Capture Usage and Storage have the potential to decarbonise this energy supply still further.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/07/2018 14:38:10 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

933811

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
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	Petrol: Prices
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 is taking to reduce the cost of petrol for consumers.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	159600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department monitors the prices of crude oil and retail road fuels and publishes weekly reports at</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-petroleum-products-weekly-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-petroleum-products-weekly-statistics</a>.</p><p>The Department’s analysis indicates that changes in the price of crude oil are the main driver of changes in the national average retail prices of petrol and diesel.</p><p>The Government believes that it is essential that consumers get a fair deal and that a competitive market is the best way to keep prices low. The Office of Fair Trading last looked at this in 2013, and I expect its successor, the Competition and Markets Authority, to keep this under review.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/07/2018 12:45:05 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

933851

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
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	Trade
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 implications for his policies of the recommendations of the report, Global Market Power and its Macroeconomic Implications, published by the IMF on 15 June, 2018; and whether he has plans to refer that report to the Competition and Markets Authority for review.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	159530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The research paper ‘Global Market Power and its Macroeconomic Implications’ is an IMF working paper. While the paper provides detailed analysis and reaches a number of conclusions, it makes no recommendations to national governments. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s independent competition authority, is aware of the paper.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 09/07/2018 14:34:38 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

933912

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
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	Climate Change Convention
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 21 June 2018 to Question 153707, on Climate Change Convention, whether his Department plans to make public the terms of reference for the advice sought from the Committee on Climate Change.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	159480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government will be seeking advice from the Committee on Climate Change on the implications of the Paris Agreement for the UK’s long-term reduction targets after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report later this year. The content of that request for advice will be made public.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/07/2018 14:37:47 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

933924

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
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	Coal
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 demand for coal was in each year since 2010; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	159558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The table below gives the demand for coal from 2010 - 2017:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>UK coal demand (thousand tonnes)<sup> (1)</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>51,324</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>51,507</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>64,042</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>60,206</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>48,295</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>37,451</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>17,745</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>14,183</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>(1) Includes coal used for electricity generation, heat generation, coke manufacture, blast furnaces, patent fuel manufacture, energy used in coal extraction and final consumption by industry, transport, domestic and other users.</p><p> </p><p>Source: Energy Trends table 2.1 June 2018 available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solid-fuels-and-derived-gases-section-2-energy-trends" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solid-fuels-and-derived-gases-section-2-energy-trends</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/07/2018 14:37:30 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies