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1037279

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to support people with the cost of household energy bills.
tabling member constituency	Southend West
tabling member printed	Sir David Amess
uin	908450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>Last week this Government delivered on its promise to cap energy prices.</p><p> </p><p>It now protects over 11 million households, ensuring the energy market works for all customers and saving consumers up to around £130 a year.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to invest at least £640m in energy efficiency annually until 2028 and are also delivering on our smart meter programme.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/01/2019 15:30:32 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	44 label Biography information for Sir David Amess

1037280

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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: Billing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to ensure full and timely payments to small businesses.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	908447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>The Small Business Commissioner has recovered £2 million for small businesses in his first year. We have recently taken steps to strengthen the Prompt Payment Code, and we are working through nearly 300 responses to our recent call for evidence on creating a more responsible payment culture.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 08/01/2019 15:29:59 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1037281

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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: Government Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent steps he has taken to support small businesses.
tabling member constituency	Colchester
tabling member printed	Will Quince
uin	908443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>Through our modern Industrial Strategy, we are making the UK one of the best places in the world for businesses to start up and grow.</p><p> </p><p>The Government-owned British Business Bank is supporting nearly 78,000 small businesses with over £5.5 billion of finance; and we’ve extended funding for the Start Up Loans Company until 2021, supporting 10,000 more entrepreneurs.</p><p> </p><p>We’re also providing £56m of funding to boost business productivity, including £11m to create a Small Business Leadership Programme.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 08/01/2019 15:29:43 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4423 label Biography information for Will Quince

1037282

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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	Fuel Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to tackle fuel poverty.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karen Lee
uin	908446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>This Government made a clear Manifesto commitment to tackle fuel poverty by committing to upgrading all fuel poor homes to EPC Band C by 2030.</p><p> </p><p>We are making progress in particular by tackling the most energy inefficient homes. Since 2010 there are almost 800,000 fewer fuel poor households living in homes rated E, F or G.</p><p> </p><p>The average fuel poverty gap has also dropped 6 per cent in real terms since 2010 and last year I refocused the whole of the £630m ECO annual budget on tackling fuel poverty without the help of her party I might add who voted against the measures.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/01/2019 15:29:51 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4664 label Biography information for Karen Lee

1037283

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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	Money Laundering
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to tackle money laundering.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	908448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>The Financial Action Task Force has just completed a landmark review of the UK’s regime for tackling money laundering, concluding that we have some of the strongest controls in the world.</p><p> </p><p>We are building on our strengths. In the last six months, the Department has published a draft bill to tackle money laundering in the property market; set out reforms to tackle misuse of limited partnerships; and committed to consulting on reforms to Companies House.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 08/01/2019 15:30:20 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1035034

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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	Property: Ownership
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 16 October 2018 to Question 175844 on Property: Ownership, for what reason the Government did not follow the May 2016-April 2018 timeline referred to in the Open Government National Action Plan 2016-18 for bringing forward legislative proposals on the property ownership register.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	205079
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 16 October 2018 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-10-08/175844/" target="_blank">175844</a>.</p><p>The register of overseas entities will be the first of its kind in the world and we must ensure that we get our legislative proposals right in order to deliver the policy in a full and effective way. The timetable set out in the Written Ministerial Statement [<a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-01-24/HCWS425/" target="_blank">HCWS425</a>] referred to in my previous response enables this.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 10/01/2019 16:00:05 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1035145

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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: Feed-in Tariffs
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 his Department has to publish proposals on how small-scale renewables exporting to the grid will be rewarded.
tabling member constituency	St Austell and Newquay
tabling member printed	Steve Double
uin	205308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>On 8 January, Government published a consultation on the future for small-scale low-carbon generation. This can be viewed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/the-future-for-small-scale-low-carbon-generation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/the-future-for-small-scale-low-carbon-generation</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 14/01/2019 15:54:41 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4452 label Biography information for Steve Double

1035180

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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
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 Written Statement of 17 May 2018 on Energy Policy, HCWS690, whether the definition of non-hydraulic fracturing excludes fracturing with the use of (a) acid, (b) gas, (c) other substances and (d) water below the limits set out in the definition of hydraulic fracturing in section 50 of the Infrastructure Act 2015.
tabling member constituency	North East Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Lee Rowley
uin	205378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>In the Written Statement of 17 May 2018, the Government committed to consult on the principle of whether non-hydraulic fracturing shale exploration development should be treated as permitted development. The consultation sought views on a proposed definition of non-hydraulic fracturing shale exploration development. The Government will respond to the consultation in due course.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 14/01/2019 15:55:08 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley

1035181

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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: Regulation
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 employees the new Shale Environmental Regulator Group plans to employ.
tabling member constituency	North East Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Lee Rowley
uin	205379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Shale Environmental Regulator Group is a virtual entity bringing together the regulators of the onshore oil and gas sector, including shale gas operations (the Environment Agency, the Health and Safety Executive and the Oil and Gas Authority). Each of these regulators has the appropriate expertise and is properly resourced to enforce the regulations for which they are responsible. The Shale Environmental Regulator Group creates a single interface for Mineral Planning Authorities and industry, to streamline information access to the regulations, and three current employees of the Environment Agency have been deployed to support this new entity.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 17/01/2019 10:03:30 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley

1035182

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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: Regulation
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 new powers will be conferred on the Shale Regulator in addition to the powers held by existing regulators.
tabling member constituency	North East Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Lee Rowley
uin	205380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The Shale Environmental Regulatory Group is a virtual entity bringing together the Environment Agency, the Health and Safety Executive and the Oil and Gas Authority to provide a single interface for Mineral Planning Authorities and industry. It is not a statutory body and has no new powers or regulatory responsibilities. Each regulator will continue to retain its own independent regulatory functions, duties and enforcement powers as set out in law.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 14/01/2019 15:55:15 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley