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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

1037604

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	Digital Competition Expert Panel
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what has been the outcome of their review into the UK’s competition tools in the context of digital markets.
tabling member printed	Lord Goodlad
uin	HL12660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s Modernising Consumer Markets green paper sought views on how well equipped the UK competition regime is to manage emerging challenges, including in digital markets. We are continuing to develop policy options across the range of measures proposed in the green paper and will respond in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also commissioned the independent Digital Competition Expert Panel to undertake a review into the state of competition in the digital economy and to make recommendations on any changes that may be needed. The independent Panel’s terms of reference were published in September, when the Panel started its work. The Panel ran an open call for evidence between 12 October and 7 December. The Panel expects to publish a final report of its findings in due course. The findings of the panel’s work will help inform our policy proposals.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 16/01/2019 16:59:32 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	670 label Biography information for Lord Goodlad

1037786

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	Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries
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 in the UK Steel report entitled The energy price scandal, a fair power deal for UK steel, published in December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	206292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The UK Steel report on industrial electricity prices is a useful contribution as we develop the White Paper that will build on the principles set out by the Secretary of State in his energy speech on 15 November 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The report highlights the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund. The Budget on 29 October 2018 announced that we are providing £315 million for this Fund to support industrial energy efficiency and decarbonisation projects to bring energy costs down for vital industries, including the steel sector.</p><p> </p><p>We also continue to reduce the cumulative impact of energy and climate change policies on industrial electricity prices for key energy intensive industries. This includes a package of relief for these industries worth over £850 million since 2013, of which more than £270 million has been provided to the steel sector. We are looking carefully at the proposals in the UK Steel report for developing this package of relief.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 11/01/2019 08:36:39 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1037811

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	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, if his Department has plans to undertake a review of the effectiveness of shared parental leave.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	206403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is currently evaluating the Shared Parental Leave and Pay scheme. Amongst other things the evaluation will look at take up rates for the scheme, barriers to take up and how the scheme is being used in practice. Based on this information, the evaluation will assess whether the scheme has met its objectives.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 14/01/2019 17:42:37 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1037812

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
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 domestic energy suppliers that have ceased trading as a result of financial difficulties in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	206231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>There are now over 60 domestic energy suppliers in the market, up from 13 in 2010. Since 2010, 14 domestic suppliers have ceased trading. GB Energy (in 2016), was the first supplier to cease trading since 2008.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 14/01/2019 17:46:49 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1037815

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	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on the energy bills of consumers of domestic energy suppliers ceasing trading.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	206232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>In the event of an energy supplier insolvency, the Supplier of Last Resort (SoLR) process allows a quick transfer of customers to another supplier appointed by Ofgem and ensures credit balances are protected.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of the competitive SoLR processes, successful suppliers have agreed to absorb a proportion of the costs of the process and claim some of the remaining costs via the industry-wide SoLR levy. The amount claimed through the levy will vary depending on the terms of the successful SoLR bid and other factors such as number of customers and how much credit they have built up. It takes time for the extent of some SoLR-related costs to become clear and Ofgem consult with industry and interested parties before any levy claim decision is taken.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 14/01/2019 17:48:14 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham