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1463031

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
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: 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 assessment he has made of the potential effect of the upcoming Contract for Difference Auction Round 4 on energy bills.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	2457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to minimising energy costs for businesses and consumers. Contracts for Difference offer value-for-money to consumers and continue to deliver low prices. For example, between the first allocation round in 2015 and the last round in 2019, the price per unit (MWh) of offshore wind fell by around 65%.</p><p> </p><p>Competitive auctions are proven to be effective in helping to keep costs down and this year’s auction has been designed to keep the allocation process highly competitive. The impact will be dependent on the outcome of the competitive auction process; it is expected that this year’s round will have a small impact on household bills.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 24/05/2022 14:35:01 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1463044

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
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	Carbon Capture and Storage
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 briefing paper by the Climate Change Committee published on 23 March 2022 entitled Blue Carbon, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including blue carbon habitats in the UK's Greenhouse Gas Inventory.
tabling member constituency	Hastings and Rye
tabling member printed	Sally-Ann Hart
uin	2702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>BEIS has commissioned scientific research to better understand the feasibility of including Blue Carbon in the UK Greenhouse Gas Inventory, and what change in UK Greenhouse Gas emissions would result from inclusion. A technical report on this subject is due for publication this summer.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 24/05/2022 14:34:05 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4842 label Biography information for Sally-Ann Hart

1463080

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
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: Newport West
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 trends in the level of energy costs for people in Newport West constituency.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	2645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>Quarterly statistics on energy prices by region may be found online at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/quarterly-energy-prices" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/quarterly-energy-prices</a> . The Government do not have data at the constituency level.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises the impact rising energy prices is having on consumers and has put in place a package of support worth £9.1 billion to help domestic energy customers with the cost of rising energy bills.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 24/05/2022 14:33:19 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1463116

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
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	Disability: 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 level of energy use required by some disabled people to keep warm or run specialised equipment; and whether he plans to take steps to support those people in the context of the increase in energy costs.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	2546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2022 answer text <p>The Government understands that some households with a disability or medical condition will have higher heating costs than average. Certain specialised NHS England services do provide rebates on energy costs for patients using medical equipment at home, such as home oxygen concentrators or adult home dialysis. These arrangements are unique to the contracts or service specifications of these conditions. Clinical Commissioning Groups are best placed to support their local populace.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is aware of the impact that high global wholesale energy prices are having on consumers and has put in place additional support worth £9.1bn on top of existing measures to support vulnerable households.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 25/05/2022 12:07:29 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1463175

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
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: Storage
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 introduce a legal definition of energy storage in the context of battery storage technology.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	2543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>In the 2021 Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan, the Government committed to defining electricity storage as a distinct subset of generation in primary legislation when parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 24/05/2022 14:32:36 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1463268

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Social Clubs
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 Answer of 9 March 2022 to Question 132386 on civil service staff networks, what recognised staff groups have been running in his Department over the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Orpington
tabling member printed	Gareth Bacon
uin	2675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2022 answer text <p>The Department does not hold a central list of all staff networks. However, the Department engages with and supports the activity of a group of networks which are recognised in an informal partnership agreement. These networks are: All Ages Network, Carers Network, Capability Action Network, EU Nationals Network, Faith and Minority Ethnic Network, LGBT+ Network, Parental Support Network, Part-Time Workers Network, Schools Outreach Network, Social Mobility Network, Volunteering Network, Wellbeing and Mental Health Network, and Women Empowered Network.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 20/05/2022 10:11:29 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4798 label Biography information for Gareth Bacon

1463273

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Social Clubs
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 Answer of 9 March 2022 to Question 132386 on civil service staff networks, what information he holds on (a) FTE staff time and (b) budgets available to recognised staff groups within his Department in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Orpington
tabling member printed	Gareth Bacon
uin	2676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2022 answer text <p>Networks that are recognised in the Department’s network partnership agreement are allocated 0.1FTE of their time to support these networks. All other staff support networks on a voluntary basis.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 20/05/2022 10:10:41 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4798 label Biography information for Gareth Bacon

1463308

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
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	P&O Ferries: Redundancy
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 involvement The Insolvency Service has on the matter of redundancies at P&O Ferries; what the cost to the public purse of that engagement is; what assessment his Department has made of the solvency of P&O Ferries; and what plans the Government has to safeguard ferry services in the event that P&O Ferries becomes insolvent.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	2439
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>On 1 April 2022 the Insolvency Service commenced formal criminal and civil investigations into the circumstances surrounding the recent redundancies made by P&amp;O Ferries. As these are ongoing investigations, no further comment or information can be provided at this time.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport regularly looks at resilience of businesses within the maritime sector.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 23/05/2022 13:17:32 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1463322

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
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: Standing Charges
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 to review the system of standing charges for (a) electricity and (b) gas customers.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	2452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>The standing charge includes the costs energy suppliers incur to provide a live supply of gas and electricity to individual properties, regardless of how much energy their customers use. If it was removed, these costs would be added to the unit price of energy. Otherwise, suppliers would not be able to recover the legitimate costs of serving customers.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 24/05/2022 14:31:47 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1462763

registered interest
date	13/05/2022
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
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 British Geological Survey's short report on shale gas extraction commissioned by his Department, if he will publish the criteria for lifting the moratorium on shale gas extraction.
tabling member constituency	South Thanet
tabling member printed	Craig Mackinlay
uin	1520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2022 answer text <p>The recent request to the British Geological Survey has been made to assess if any progress has been made in the scientific understanding which underpins government policy on hydraulic fracturing.</p><p>The Government has always been clear that the exploration of shale gas reserves in England could only proceed if the science shows that it is safe, sustainable and of minimal disturbance to those living and working nearby. The request to the British Geological Survey does not indicate a change to government policy.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 18/05/2022 14:05:31 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4529 label Biography information for Craig Mackinlay