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registered interest
date	24/05/2018
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	Lighting: EU Action
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 representations his Department made to the European Commission on the effect of the proposed EU Lighting Regulation 2020 to replace EU1194/2012 and associated regulation under the Ecodesign Working Plan 2016-19, on the use of different types stage lighting across the creative industries.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	147822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>Officials from the Department attended the EU consultation forum in December 2017, the most recent discussion of this issue in Brussels, to discuss the latest Ecodesign lighting proposals. The Department has subsequently made representations to the European Commission in writing and in person to discuss the issue of stage lighting and potential solutions. I understand that representatives from the industry have also met with the Commission and will be drafting an alternative proposal for stage lighting for their consideration.</p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that this is only a proposal at this stage and remains open for discussion, with a final decision on the draft regulation likely to be made towards the end of the year. We will continue to engage with both industry and the European Commission in the meantime.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 04/06/2018 14:38:57 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

911188

registered interest
date	24/05/2018
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	Warm Home Discount Scheme: Pensioners
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 whether some pensioners are missing out on the Warm Home Discount Scheme as a result of being customers of a supplier with fewer than 250,000 customers.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	147936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>Energy suppliers that are obligated to participate in the Warm Home Discount scheme cover 94% of the market for domestic customers. Suppliers that are not obligated under the scheme can volunteer to provide rebates to the Core Group. Last winter, three suppliers volunteered under the scheme.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that the number of pensioners beyond those 18 suppliers that would have been automatically eligible for Warm Home Discount last winter under the Core Group is roughly 60,000, of the roughly 1.4 million Pension Credit Guaranteed Credit recipients who would be automatically eligible if they held an account with a participating supplier.</p><p> </p><p>There is a set spending envelope for Warm Home Discount and increasing the number of obligated suppliers would not in itself increase the number of households receiving the rebate. We have recently completed a consultation on the next phase of Warm Home Discount, including the obligation thresholds, and are currently reviewing the responses.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 147937 question first answered 04/06/2018 14:39:23 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

911189

registered interest
date	24/05/2018
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	Warm Home Discount 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, what estimate he has made of the number of people eligible for the Warm Home Discount Scheme who will not receive that discount in 2018-19 because they are customers of an energy supplier with fewer than 250,000 customers.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	147937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>Energy suppliers that are obligated to participate in the Warm Home Discount scheme cover 94% of the market for domestic customers. Suppliers that are not obligated under the scheme can volunteer to provide rebates to the Core Group. Last winter, three suppliers volunteered under the scheme.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that the number of pensioners beyond those 18 suppliers that would have been automatically eligible for Warm Home Discount last winter under the Core Group is roughly 60,000, of the roughly 1.4 million Pension Credit Guaranteed Credit recipients who would be automatically eligible if they held an account with a participating supplier.</p><p> </p><p>There is a set spending envelope for Warm Home Discount and increasing the number of obligated suppliers would not in itself increase the number of households receiving the rebate. We have recently completed a consultation on the next phase of Warm Home Discount, including the obligation thresholds, and are currently reviewing the responses.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 147936 question first answered 04/06/2018 14:39:23 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

910284

registered interest
date	23/05/2018
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: EU External 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 recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of EU tariffs on the development of the solar technology sector in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	147499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not made a recent assessment of the effect of EU tariffs on the development of the solar technology sector in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The European Commission revised these tariffs in September 2017 following a review of evidence provided by stakeholders and Member States. The Department for International Trade (DIT) represented the UK during this review and they have also recently conducted a Call for Evidence to identify UK interest in existing EU trade remedy measures. This Call for Evidence has now closed and DIT are currently considering the responses they have received.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 04/06/2018 14:41:29 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

910358

registered interest
date	23/05/2018
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	Nuclear Power Stations: Construction
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 27 April to Question 136690, if he will set out the range of possible financing structures that are currently being considered for financing new nuclear.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	147428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>As stated in the Government’s response to the Public Accounts Committee Inquiry into Hinkley Point C dated 28<sup>th</sup> January 2018, the Government will assess the cost and risk implications of a range of possible financing structures. Ministers will consider this range of optionswhen deciding whether and how to proceed with future new nuclear projects. Discussions with developers are commercially sensitive and no final decisions have been made.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 04/06/2018 14:40:59 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

910363

registered interest
date	23/05/2018
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	Nuclear Power Stations: Construction
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 27 April 2018 to Question 136695, which the new build developers and counterparts are in the UK and overseas with whom the Government engages on new nuclear.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	147429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>Government regularly engages with a number of new build developers on a range of issues relevant to delivering new nuclear projects.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 04/06/2018 14:40:32 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

910365

registered interest
date	23/05/2018
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	Nuclear Power Stations: Construction
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 1 May 2018 to Question 136931, if he will take steps to ensure that all value for money assessments that his Department carries out for new nuclear projects are completed before any deals for such projects are signed; and if he will ensure that those assessments are made public and available to Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	147430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government will ensure that appropriate value for money assessments are completed before any final deal on a new nuclear project is signed. The Government is committed to transparent, open policy making, and will consider releasing future publications at the appropriate time.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 04/06/2018 14:40:10 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

909288

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Procurement
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 contractors currently vemployed by his Department are paid £1,000 or more per day.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	146801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2018 answer text <p>None.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 31/05/2018 09:42:17 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

909342

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
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	Nuclear Installations: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if it his Department's policy for the nuclear inspection regime in the UK to maintain Euratom standards when the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	146684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2018 answer text <p>As stated in Article 77 of the draft Withdrawal Agreement between the UK and the EU, the UK will be responsible for its own nuclear safeguards arrangements when the UK leaves Euratom.</p><p> </p><p>The Government announced through a statement to Parliament in September 2017 to establish a future domestic safeguards regime that will be equivalent in effectiveness and coverage to that currently provided by Euratom. The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) will be the body responsible for the delivery of this regime.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 31/05/2018 09:43:02 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

909362

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
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	Heathrow Airport: Environment Protection
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 he has made an assessment of potential restrictions on national economic activity that will be needed in order to meet targets set in the Climate Change Act 2008 should the expansion at Heathrow Airport proceed.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	146711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2018 answer text <p>As noted in the revised draft Airports National Policy Statement, the Government agrees with the Airports Commission’s assessment that a new runway at Heathrow can be delivered within the UK’s climate change obligations.</p><p> </p><p>We are a world leader in clean growth. Between 1990 and 2016, the UK reduced its emissions by over 40 per cent while growing the economy by more than two thirds – the best performance in the G7 on a per person basis. The Government has put clean growth at the heart of its Industrial Strategy, in order to drive economic growth while meeting our emission reduction targets.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 31/05/2018 09:40:08 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable