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177708

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Housing: Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to help households improve their energy efficiency.
	tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
	tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
	uin	907446
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2015 answer text <p>We have extended our successful Energy Company Obligation out to 2017 and have reformed the Green Deal with changes such as the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund.</p><p> </p><p>Together, ECO and the Green Deal have helped more than one million homes become more energy efficient, and as I have informed the House already, yesterday I laid regulations to require landlords to bring their properties up to a minimum level of energy efficiency from 1 April 2018.</p><p> </p><p>If the House agrees these new, tough rules for the private rented sector, we estimate that around one million tenants will benefit from warmer and cheaper to heat homes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingston and Surbiton answering member printed Mr Edward Davey grouped question UIN 907453 question first answered 05/02/2015 14:58:48 answering member 188 label Biography information for Ed Davey
	tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

177991

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Housing: Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to help households improve their energy efficiency.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea East
	tabling member printed	Mrs Siân C. James
	uin	907453
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2015 answer text <p>We have extended our successful Energy Company Obligation out to 2017 and have reformed the Green Deal with changes such as the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund.</p><p> </p><p>Together, ECO and the Green Deal have helped more than one million homes become more energy efficient, and as I have informed the House already, yesterday I laid regulations to require landlords to bring their properties up to a minimum level of energy efficiency from 1 April 2018.</p><p> </p><p>If the House agrees these new, tough rules for the private rented sector, we estimate that around one million tenants will benefit from warmer and cheaper to heat homes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingston and Surbiton answering member printed Mr Edward Davey grouped question UIN 907446 question first answered 05/02/2015 14:58:48 answering member 188 label Biography information for Ed Davey
	tabling member	1573 label Biography information for Mrs Siân C. James

226270

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Housing: Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what processes are in place to monitor the standard of installations carried out under (a) the Energy Company Obligation and the Green Deal and (b) the Warm Front Scheme; what processes are in place to limit the use of sub-contractors in those schemes; and what right of redress householders have in the event that installations are not of a satisfactory standard.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	226948
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>Under ECO, Ofgem (the scheme administrator) requires that energy suppliers contract independent third parties to undertake technical monitoring on a 5% representative sample of ECO measures. Where a measure has failed a technical monitoring question, Ofgem requires that remedial action is undertaken. Ofgem publishes a technical monitoring report on its website. All installers must be certified by a Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 2030 body, and further monitoring is conducted by these bodies. Ofgem can refuse to award ECO savings to an energy company where works are not compliant with PAS 2030.</p><p>Ofgem requires that customers who have cavity wall and solid wall insulation measures installed under ECO are provided with a 25-year guarantee. Boiler repairs are required to have a one- or two-year warranty and from 1 April 2015 replacement boilers will also be required to have a warranty provided to the consumer. These guarantees and warranties must cover both the parts and installation.</p><p>Customers should direct complaints to the company who installed the measure in the first instance, however if they are not satisfied with the response they should speak with the guarantee company and/or the energy company that funded the measure. Customers can contact Ofgem to find out which energy company funded the measure.</p><p>As with all building work, customers can contact Citizen’s Advice or Trading Standards if they are unsatisfied with the work conducted by the installation company.</p><p>There are no processes to limit the use of sub-contractors under ECO (though measures must be installed in accordance with PAS 2030). It is for the obligated energy suppliers to set their own strategies to meet their obligations.</p><p>As specified in the Energy Act 2011, Assessors and Installers must be authorised in order to operate under the Green Deal. To be authorised, assessors and installers must meet the Green Deal Assessor and Installer standards and be certified against those standards by Certification Bodies. All Green Deal Installers are certified to the PAS2030 standard by Green Deal Certification Bodies.</p><p>The relevant Certification Body is then responsible for the monitoring of those organisations they have certified. All Certification Bodies will have a complaints procedure and will be required to handle complaints over installation quality for their certified organisations.</p><p>The Government funded Warm Front Scheme closed on 19 January 2013, and all installations were completed by 31 December 2013. Any customers who received support under the scheme and wish to make a complaint continue to benefit from an established complaints procedure overseen by the scheme administrator, Carillion Energy Services.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 19/03/2015 11:32:40 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd previous answer version 50525 answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

179574

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Housing: Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households that have had a smart meter installed in their property have also had one or more unique energy efficiency measures installed in their property under the Energy Companies Obligation scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
	uin	224401
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department’s quarterly data on smart meter installations is currently collected from energy suppliers in an aggregated format, rather than at a household level.</p><p>As a result, it is not possible to ascertain through data linking how many Energy Companies' Obligation measures (where the data are collected at household level, and reported on monthly as National Statistics: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/green-deal-and-energy-company-obligation-eco-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/green-deal-and-energy-company-obligation-eco-statistics</a>) have been fitted in households where smart meters have been installed.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 23/02/2015 10:21:53 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
	tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

227120

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Housing: Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many homes in (a) York Central constituency and (b) City of York local authority area were retrofitted with cavity wall insulation, lagging or other measures to conserve energy in 2010 and each subsequent year.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Sir Hugh Bayley
	uin	227376
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not publish a breakdown of measures installed by measure type, geography nor by Government schemes prior to the start of ECO. However, the provisional number of measures delivered under ECO in York Central constituency was 1,332, up to end September 2014. In York Unitary Authority there were 2,074 measures delivered under ECO, up to end September 2014.</p><p>The statistics referred to can be found in Table 1.11a and 1.11b at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/green-deal-energy-company-obligation-eco-and-insulation-levels-in-great-britain-quarterly-report-to-september-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/green-deal-energy-company-obligation-eco-and-insulation-levels-in-great-britain-quarterly-report-to-september-2014</a></p><p>The next quarterly release covering the period up to the end of December 2014 will be published on 19<sup>th</sup> March 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 19/03/2015 11:35:00 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
	tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

227785

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Housing: Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the change in levels of fuel usage in the last 10 years due to greater household energy efficiency.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	227865
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>Table 3.03 of the Energy Consumption in the UK publication, shows between 2003 and 2013, gas used by the domestic sector declined by 10.9 per cent whilst electricity declined by 7.8 per cent. These reductions include a range of .</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-consumption-in-the-uk" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-consumption-in-the-uk</a></p><p>The National Energy Efficiency framework, published in June 2014 shows the savings experience in gas consumption for properties having cavity wall insulation and loft insulation installed in 2011.The full report can be accessed through this link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/323939/National_Energy_Efficiency_Data-Framework_2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/323939/National_Energy_Efficiency_Data-Framework_2014.pdf</a>.</p><p>Savings have been estimated by comparing the gas consumption in properties before and after an energy efficiency measure has been installed with the change in consumption over the same period for similar properties which have not had a measure installed.</p><p>Further details on the methodology used to estimate the savings can be found through this link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/domestic-national-energy-efficiency-data-framework-need-methodology" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/domestic-national-energy-efficiency-data-framework-need-methodology</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 24/03/2015 15:54:09 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd previous answer version 51670 answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

349932

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Housing: Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many homes have been retrofitted to reduce energy use in the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	2179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>Since April 2008, 5.8 million properties have received loft insulation, 3.1 million properties have received cavity wall insulation and 229,000 properties have received solid wall insulation through Government schemes. Figures prior to April 2008 are not held centrally.</p><p>Updated figures covering retrofit installations up to end March 2015 will be published on 18 June 2015 at 9:30am.</p><p><em>Source: Insulation levels in Great Britain, Quarterly report (Table 2.2a):</em></p><p><em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/green-deal-energy-company-obligation-eco-and-insulation-levels-in-great-britainquarterly-report-to-december-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/green-deal-energy-company-obligation-eco-and-insulation-levels-in-great-britainquarterly-report-to-december-2014</a>.</em></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/06/2015 15:46:44 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell