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1002183

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
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	Parental Leave
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 information his Department holds on the average amount of parental leave taken by (a) women and (b) men in (i) England, (ii) London and (iii) the London Borough of Lewisham in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	188224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>The most recent official data on average length of family-related leave taken by parents is from the Maternity and Paternity Rights Survey in 2009, which collected data from parents of children born in 2008 across Great Britain.</p><p>This shows that in 2008,</p><ul><li>mothers took an average of 39 weeks of maternity leave, up from 32 weeks in 2006.</li><li>amongst fathers who took some paternity leave, 16% took more than two weeks, 50% took two weeks and 34% took less than two weeks of leave.</li></ul><p>This does not contain information on average weeks of unpaid Parental Leave, nor of Shared Parental Leave which was introduced in 2015.</p><p>Information on the amount of leave taken at the regional or local level is not available.</p><p>The full Maternity and Paternity Rights Survey 2009/10 Research Report can be found here:</p><p>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/214367/rrep777.pdf</p><p>We are currently evaluating the Shared Parental Leave and Pay schemes. As a part of this, we are commissioning a new survey which will provide updated information. Subject to the progress of data collection, we anticipate publishing findings in Summer 2019.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 20/11/2018 16:43:25 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

971509

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
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: Public Appointments
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 information his Department holds on the socio-economic background of people appointed to senior positions in his Department in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	172618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2018 answer text <p>The Civil Service is currently looking at the best way to start implementing the measures published earlier in June across Government Departments, to better understand the background of people appointed in senior positions.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to social mobility, and we are committed to creating an organisation in which everybody can thrive.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 18/09/2018 14:30:45 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

926726

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
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	District Heating: 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 steps his Department is taking to regulate district heating.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	154758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The Clean Growth Strategy committed to assessing the sector’s future market framework. The Department will consider the recommendations from an industry taskforce published in January 2018 and the CMA’s final recommendations in developing an appropriate future market framework that will deliver benefits for consumers and growth for the sector.</p><p> </p><p>District heating has significant potential to reduce energy bills and carbon. We are investing £320m in the sector through the Heat Networks Investment Project launching in the autumn to ensure consumers benefit from this opportunity and get a fair deal; a number of pilot projects have already received funding.</p><p> </p><p>In the 2017 Clean Growth Strategy <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-growth-strategy" target="_blank">BEIS assessed</a> the carbon cost-effectiveness of various technologies including district heating systems at an estimated £184/tCO2e for domestic district heating (undiscounted, 2015 prices), and £224/CO2e for non-domestic district heating. These figures do not account for the network benefits of district heating systems and the option value of exploiting future low-carbon heating technologies at large-scale.</p><p> </p><p>The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014 require heat suppliers to install individual heat meters in all newly constructed buildings connected to district heat networks. The regulations require that bills for those metered properties are accurate, based on actual consumption, and that they clearly set out how the bill was calculated.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 154759 154760 question first answered 27/06/2018 16:05:03 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

926727

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
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	District Heating: Cost Effectiveness
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 cost effectiveness of district heating systems.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	154759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The Clean Growth Strategy committed to assessing the sector’s future market framework. The Department will consider the recommendations from an industry taskforce published in January 2018 and the CMA’s final recommendations in developing an appropriate future market framework that will deliver benefits for consumers and growth for the sector.</p><p> </p><p>District heating has significant potential to reduce energy bills and carbon. We are investing £320m in the sector through the Heat Networks Investment Project launching in the autumn to ensure consumers benefit from this opportunity and get a fair deal; a number of pilot projects have already received funding.</p><p> </p><p>In the 2017 Clean Growth Strategy <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-growth-strategy" target="_blank">BEIS assessed</a> the carbon cost-effectiveness of various technologies including district heating systems at an estimated £184/tCO2e for domestic district heating (undiscounted, 2015 prices), and £224/CO2e for non-domestic district heating. These figures do not account for the network benefits of district heating systems and the option value of exploiting future low-carbon heating technologies at large-scale.</p><p> </p><p>The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014 require heat suppliers to install individual heat meters in all newly constructed buildings connected to district heat networks. The regulations require that bills for those metered properties are accurate, based on actual consumption, and that they clearly set out how the bill was calculated.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 154758 154760 question first answered 27/06/2018 16:05:03 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

926728

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
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	District Heating: Billing
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 ensure that energy firms produce clear and transparent billing for district heating in new developments.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	154760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The Clean Growth Strategy committed to assessing the sector’s future market framework. The Department will consider the recommendations from an industry taskforce published in January 2018 and the CMA’s final recommendations in developing an appropriate future market framework that will deliver benefits for consumers and growth for the sector.</p><p> </p><p>District heating has significant potential to reduce energy bills and carbon. We are investing £320m in the sector through the Heat Networks Investment Project launching in the autumn to ensure consumers benefit from this opportunity and get a fair deal; a number of pilot projects have already received funding.</p><p> </p><p>In the 2017 Clean Growth Strategy <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-growth-strategy" target="_blank">BEIS assessed</a> the carbon cost-effectiveness of various technologies including district heating systems at an estimated £184/tCO2e for domestic district heating (undiscounted, 2015 prices), and £224/CO2e for non-domestic district heating. These figures do not account for the network benefits of district heating systems and the option value of exploiting future low-carbon heating technologies at large-scale.</p><p> </p><p>The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014 require heat suppliers to install individual heat meters in all newly constructed buildings connected to district heat networks. The regulations require that bills for those metered properties are accurate, based on actual consumption, and that they clearly set out how the bill was calculated.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 154758 154759 question first answered 27/06/2018 16:05:03 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

894984

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
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, whether he supports the UK offshore wind industry’s ambition to produce one third of UK electricity from offshore wind by 2030.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	139549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 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, when we expect offshore wind to provide around 10% of the UK’s annual electricity generation.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the Clean Growth Strategy, the Government is working with industry as they develop their proposal for 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 09/05/2018 11:48:44 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

891317

registered interest
date	25/04/2018
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	Fuel Poverty: Greater London
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 fuel poverty in (a) Lewisham borough and (b) London.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	138076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows the number and proportion of households living in fuel poverty in Lewisham and London between 2014 and 2015 (latest data available).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Lewisham</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>London</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Fuel Poor Households</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percent Fuel Poor</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Fuel Poor Households</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percent Fuel Poor</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>12,300</p></td><td><p>10.5%</p></td><td><p>348,000</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>12,000</p></td><td><p>10.2%</p></td><td><p>335,000</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Household figures for Lewisham are rounded to the nearest 100 and proportion of fuel poor to the nearest 1 decimal place</p><p>*Household figures for London are rounded to the nearest 1,000 and proportion of fuel poor to the nearest whole number</p><p> </p><p>Due to the relative nature of the fuel poverty measure, the proportion of households in fuel poverty fluctuates between 10% and 12% at the national level.</p><p> </p><p>The latest sub-regional fuel poverty statistics can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-sub-regional-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-sub-regional-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/05/2018 16:59:17 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

857724

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
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: 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, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect of the removal of feed-in tariffs for solar energy on the viability of the solar energy industry.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	131625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>A consultation on the Feed-in Tariffs scheme will be published in due course. An impact assessment to accompany this is being prepared.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 131626 question first answered 22/03/2018 11:27:38 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

857725

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
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: 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, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect of removing feed-in tariffs for solar energy on the ability of local authorities to invest in solar energy.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	131626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>A consultation on the Feed-in Tariffs scheme will be published in due course. An impact assessment to accompany this is being prepared.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 131625 question first answered 22/03/2018 11:27:38 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

857726

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
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	Fuel Poverty
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 has plans to support community-based energy projects which advise residents on fuel poverty.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	131627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government is providing £1.3m funding for the Big Energy Saving Network programme and Big Energy Saving Week campaign this winter. The Big Energy Saving Network funds third sector organisations and community groups, to support vulnerable consumers so they can switch and save. With around £4m funding from Government the Network has reached over vulnerable 450,000 consumers in the last four years and we aim to reach a further 100,000 this winter.</p><p> </p><p>The Industry Initiative element of Governments’ Warm Home Discount scheme provides services funded by energy suppliers. £19.4m was spent in 2016/17 on activities to support consumers, which provided help to reduce and manage energy debts, helping consumers find additional benefits and sources of income to pay for their energy.</p><p> </p><p>Recognising the value of local expertise in tackling fuel poverty Government also commissioned Cornwall Council to produce two toolkits. The toolkits share best practice in establishing support to tackle fuel poverty and in making ‘cold home referrals’ with the health sector. The toolkits have recently been published on the Citizens Advice website.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Energy Company Obligation, which requires the installation of energy efficiency measures in homes, includes an element which obligated suppliers can deliver in partnership with local authorities and other local organisations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 22/03/2018 15:37:20 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft