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1458737

registered interest
date	20/04/2022
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: 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 he has made of the benefits of providing residents who are local to energy and nuclear plants with discounts to their energy bills.
tabling member constituency	Ynys Môn
tabling member printed	Virginia Crosbie
uin	156636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>It is important that communities can participate in and benefit from the deployment of new low carbon energy technologies in their local areas. As set out in its recent British Energy Security Strategy, the Government is developing onshore wind partnerships in England that will enable supportive communities to host new onshore wind infrastructure and enjoy the benefits of doing so, through developers supporting for example, local energy discounts and new community infrastructure projects.</p><p> </p><p>Renewable and nuclear projects can also bring wider socio-economic benefits to local people and businesses, including increasing local employment, creating regional supply chains and investing in new training facilities in the community.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 25/04/2022 16:43:20 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4859 label Biography information for Virginia Crosbie

1458763

registered interest
date	20/04/2022
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: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when his Department plans to publish its next set of spending transparency data.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	156407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>BEIS published the latest set of departmental spending transparency data (October, November and December 2021) on 22 April.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 27/04/2022 08:12:35 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1458805

registered interest
date	20/04/2022
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	Clothing: 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 plans he has to amend UK place of origin regulations for clothing to enable customers to identify products originating in countries or regions within which human rights abuses are occurring.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	156495
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>BEIS has no plans to amend the regulation for which it is responsible to seek that the labelling of clothes requires the ‘place-of-origin’ to be included.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 25/04/2022 17:23:37 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1458814

registered interest
date	20/04/2022
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 Supply: Disability
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 set targets for energy suppliers to meet in regards to identifying and supporting disabled customers.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	156342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>Ofgem already has measures in place to require energy suppliers to support disabled customers. These include protection from disconnection during the winter, and the provision of additional support through a Priority Services Register. Ofgem monitors compliance with their rules protecting vulnerable consumers. Their most recent report is available at: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ofgem.gov.uk%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2F2021-10%2FOfgem%2520Consumer%2520Protection%2520Report%2520Autumn%25202021_Final.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CDouglas.Bush%40beis.gov.uk%7Cb965e49ea7e540dc14f408da22cef131%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637860569440123745%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=jXS8I2%2FeRKEfUY%2F4ltou4EElyYDzniN%2FpEAdKhzcwpk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2021-10/Ofgem%20Consumer%20Protection%20Report%20Autumn%202021_Final.pdf</a>.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>Under the Warm Home Discount scheme, Ofgem provides a breakdown in their annual reports of the Industry Initiatives supporting fuel poor and vulnerable households through measures that include benefit entitlement checks and debt write-off. The 2020-2021 report is available at: <a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/warm-home-discount-annual-report-scheme-year-10" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/warm-home-discount-annual-report-scheme-year-10</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/04/2022 08:52:06 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1458816

registered interest
date	20/04/2022
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 Company Obligation: Disability
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 been made of the financial impact on individuals affected by the decision to remove support for disabled people through the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	156343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>ECO4 has been designed to focus support on households with the lowest incomes and alleviate fuel poverty. This will include households with disabled people on the lowest incomes. The scheme is designed to improve the energy efficiency of homes, through the installation of insulation or heating measures. Households benefitting from improvements could save an average of £300 per annum.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/04/2022 08:50:33 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1458817

registered interest
date	20/04/2022
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	Electricity: Consumers
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 the total number of domestic electricity consumers was in the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	156512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>BEIS publishes statistics on the number of domestic electricity customers in Great Britain and also Northern Ireland. These statistics were last updated on the 31st of March 2022.[1]<sup>,[2]</sup> [3]</p><p> </p><p>A summary of the historic number of meter points from these published statistics is provided in table 1. (Figures are only available up to 2020 for Northern Ireland).</p><p> </p><p><em><strong>Table 1 - Total number of domestic electricity customers 2017 -2021</strong></em></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GB</p></td><td><p>28,217,000</p></td><td><p>28,439,000</p></td><td><p>28,663,000</p></td><td><p>28,831,000</p></td><td><p>29,082,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>886,000</p></td><td><p>895,000</p></td><td><p>904,000</p></td><td><p>907,000</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>29,103,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>29,334,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>29,567,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>29,738,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>N/A</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em><br>Note: the GB figures are taken from the December total for each year. Also, the total number of customers reported in the above statistics is based on the number of electricity meter points. As a result, these values are higher than from the total number of households in the UK, owing to some household having multiple meters.</em></p><p><em>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-switching-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-switching-statistics</a></em></p><p><em>[2] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-national-electricity-consumption-statistics-in-northern-ireland" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-national-electricity-consumption-statistics-in-northern-ireland</a></em></p><p><em>[3] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-national-electricity-consumption-statistics-in-northern-ireland" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-national-electricity-consumption-statistics-in-northern-ireland </a></em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 25/04/2022 16:13:35 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1458818

registered interest
date	20/04/2022
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	Electricity: Consumers
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 forecasts his Department has made for the total number of domestic electricity consumers in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	156513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>BEIS does not publish formal forecasts on future electricity customer numbers. However, as part of the supporting analysis for the Energy Bills Support Scheme (EBSS) consultation[1] an estimated profile of future domestic electricity meter points in Great Britain was included.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold an estimate on the number of future domestic electricity customers in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p><em>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/technical-proposals-for-the-energy-bills-support-scheme" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/technical-proposals-for-the-energy-bills-support-scheme</a></em></p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 25/04/2022 16:43:06 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1458819

registered interest
date	20/04/2022
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	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 the criteria are for qualifying for the Warm Home Discount under the new Core Group 2.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	156344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>The full eligibility criteria, including a list of the qualifying benefits, can be found in our recently published <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/warm-home-discount-better-targeted-support-from-2022" target="_blank">Government response</a> on the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 27/04/2022 16:41:01 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1458822

registered interest
date	20/04/2022
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	Warm Home Discount Scheme: Reform
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 he will reverse planned reforms to the Warm Home Discount eligibility criteria so that all those in receipt of Personal Independence Payment, Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance are eligible for that support.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	156345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>Introducing non-means-tested benefits, such as Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Attendance Allowance (AA), into the eligibility criteria would mean that many households on lower incomes and in deeper fuel poverty would lose out.</p><p> </p><p>Around 62% of PIP and DLA recipients also receive one of the qualifying means-tested benefits and so would be considered low-income under the Core Group 2 criteria. Those households with high energy costs would be eligible for a rebate. Recipients of AA, a pension-age benefit, who claim Pension Credit Guarantee Credit will in most cases qualify for a rebate through Core Group 1.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 27/04/2022 16:41:09 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1458825

registered interest
date	20/04/2022
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	Electricity and Natural Gas: 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, if he will summarise the four options being examined by Ofgem to reduce wholesale prices for gas and electricity; and when he expects decisions on the lead options to be announced and implemented.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	156412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>Ofgem, as the independent regulator of the GB gas and electricity markets, continues to examine ways to reduce the impact of the recent unprecedented rise in wholesale gas prices on energy consumers.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 25/04/2022 16:42:01 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry