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177492

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	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 recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on carbon and renewables targets.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	David Mowat
uin	907455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2015 answer text <p>Since agreement of the EU2030 climate and energy package, my Right Honourable Friend and I have had many discussions with EU counterparts on implementing the EU’s GHG target, including at the Environment Councils in October and December, and at the COP20 in Lima in December. My Right Honourable Friend met with Commissioner Arias Canete yesterday and discussed a wide range of climate change issues.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 05/02/2015 14:56:36 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4080 label Biography information for David Mowat

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

176901

registered interest
date	30/01/2015
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	Fossil Fuels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2015 to Question 219852, if he will provide a breakdown by category of his Department's expenditure allocated to oil and gas in the last financial year; and of the purposes and functions of that expenditure.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	222812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2015 answer text <p>DECC’s expenditure allocated to Oil and Gas for the financial year 2013/2014 was £2,798k and all of this was channelled into the Oil and Gas Maximising Recovery Programme.</p><p>A breakdown giving the purposes and functions within that expenditure is set out in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Purpose/Function</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount (£k)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Geological advice contract</p></td><td><p>600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reservoir Engineering/Improved Oil Recovery, Carbon Capture &amp; Storage contract</p></td><td><p>600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Environmental/Decommissioning/IHR Facilities contract</p></td><td><p>500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pilot - Competitiveness</p></td><td><p>300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Joint Industry R&amp;D projects</p></td><td><p>200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IT and Data management</p></td><td><p>200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other (including currently unforeseeable expenditure on Improved Oil Recovery, resilience, delimitation, Environmental/Decommissioning, metering etc)</p></td><td><p>200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unconventional Oil and Gas</p></td><td><p>198</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/02/2015 17:55:24 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

176403

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
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	Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his Department's advertising budget was in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	222572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department’s advertising and marketing budgets for each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15 are shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><em>2010-11 </em></p><p><em>(£K)</em></p></td><td><p><em>2011-12</em></p><p><em>(£K)</em></p></td><td><p><em>2012-13</em></p><p><em>(£K)</em></p></td><td><p><em>2013-14</em></p><p><em>(£K)</em></p></td><td><p><em>2014-15</em></p><p><em>(£K)</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Advertising budget</p></td><td><p> </p><p>3,500</p></td><td><p> </p><p>-</p></td><td><p> </p><p>200</p></td><td><p> </p><p>4,200</p></td><td><p> </p><p>400</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 03/02/2015 16:17:38 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176405

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
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	Communication
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his Department's communications budget was in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	222586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department’s communications budgets for each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15 are shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><em>2010-11</em></p><p><em>(£K)</em></p></td><td><p><em>2011-12</em></p><p><em>(£K)</em></p></td><td><p><em>2012-13</em></p><p><em>(£K)</em></p></td><td><p><em>2013-14</em></p><p><em>(£K)</em></p></td><td><p><em>2014-15</em></p><p><em>(£K)</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Communications budget</p></td><td><p> </p><p>5,500</p></td><td><p> </p><p>4,200</p></td><td><p> </p><p>3,400</p></td><td><p> </p><p>3,700</p></td><td><p> </p><p>4,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The figures above are the total budgets of the Department’s communications directorate, excluding any marketing and advertising costs.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 03/02/2015 16:18:00 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176406

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
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	Energy: Debts
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 families with children in (a) Halton and (b) the UK are currently in debt to their energy companies.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	222549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on how many families are in debt with their energy companies.</p><p>Ofgem closely monitors domestic energy suppliers’ performance and publishes information in relation to debt owed by domestic electricity and gas accounts holders in Great Britain, but they do not publish data relating to families with children or constituency areas. At the end of 2013, latest data available, 1.5 million domestic electricity account holders and 1.4 million domestic gas account holders were in debt to their energy supplier, Ofgem’s Domestic Suppliers’ Social Obligations: 2013 Annual Report:</p><p><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ofgem-publications/92186/annualreport2013finalforpublication.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ofgem-publications/92186/annualreport2013finalforpublication.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 02/02/2015 15:28:36 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock attachment 1 file name annualreport2013finalforpublication.pdf title Domestic Suppliers Social Obligations: 2013 Report
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

176410

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
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	Energy: Debts
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 families with children in (a) Birmingham, Hall Green constituency, (b) Birmingham and (c) the UK are currently in debt to their energy supplier.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	222488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on how many families are in debt with their energy companies.</p><p>Ofgem closely monitors domestic energy suppliers’ performance and publishes information in relation to debt owed by domestic electricity and gas accounts holders in Great Britain, but they do not publish data relating to families with children or constituency areas. At the end of 2013, latest data available, 1.5 million domestic electricity account holders and 1.4 million domestic gas account holders were in debt to their energy supplier:</p><p><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ofgem-publications/92186/annualreport2013finalforpublication.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ofgem-publications/92186/annualreport2013finalforpublication.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p><em>Ofgem’s Domestic Suppliers’ Social Obligations: 2013 Annual Report</em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/02/2015 17:57:04 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock attachment 1 file name annualreport2013finalforpublication.pdf title Domestic Suppliers Social Obligations: 2013 report
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

176413

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
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	Energy: Debts
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 the Government is taking to prioritise support for families with children when they fall behind on their energy bills in (a) the North East and (b) Newcastle upon Tyne.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	222408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>This Government has implemented a range of measures to help vulnerable households across Great Britain reduce their energy bills, including colder weather payments and warm home discount.</p><p>For those customers who fall behind on payments, suppliers are obligated to take their ability to pay into account when setting a repayment plan. Some suppliers also provide special grants and services to help families. Further information is available free from the Home Heat Helpline on 0800 33 66 99.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 02/02/2015 17:20:39 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

176414

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
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	Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether the payments made under the non-domestic renewable heat incentive scheme have been at the projected lower levels during the summer months since the start of the scheme.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	222390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>Non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) installations are paid quarterly. Payments are based upon heat meter readings submitted by applicants every 3 months from the date when the (accredited) application was submitted. These readings, in conjunction with the tariff level at which an installation was accredited, determine the level of payments.</p><p>Using the quarterly data collected, we have assessed the seasonality of renewable heat generated under the scheme, using natural gas demand as a comparator – see attached. The attached chart shows this seasonality is as expected, with scheme generation correlating with the seasonal variation in gas demand, including the lower demand in the summer months.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 02/02/2015 17:32:41 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd attachment 1 file name Charts for WPQ 222390.pdf title Charts for WPQ 222390 on RHI
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis