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date	17/06/2015
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	Energy: Conservation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the ruling of the European Court of Justice on 4 June 2015 on the UK's VAT rate on the supply and installation of energy-saving materials, what assessment she has made of (a) the implications for her policies of that ruling and (b) the effect that ruling will have on measures to improve energy efficiency.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	2998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government is currently considering the full implications of the decision of the European Court of Justice on the application of the VAT reduced rate to the installation of energy saving materials.</p><p>Estimates based on provisional internal analysis suggest that around 1.5% fewer households would meet the Green Deal’s Golden Rule if the VAT rate was 20% instead of 5%.</p><p>In England, most Energy Company Obligation (ECO) delivery does not involve blending with private finance or other funding streams, so there is likely to be minimal impact were there to be a VAT increase.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 22/06/2015 10:06:29 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

381874

registered interest
date	17/06/2015
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	Warm Home Discount Scheme
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 16 June 2015 to Question 2098, what estimate she has made of the number of social housing tenants who will not be eligible for inclusion in the Warm Home Discount scheme.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	2999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>There is currently no methodology to enable an estimate to be made of the number of social housing tenants who do not meet the qualification requirements for the Warm Home Discount Scheme. However, during the four years of the scheme we have not received representations to suggest that social tenants have been disproportionately unable to access the scheme.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 22/06/2015 10:08:22 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

349990

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	Warm Home Discount Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will make the Warm Home Discount available to social housing tenants who purchase energy through collective schemes provided by a housing association and do not receive individual bills directly from the power provider.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	2098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>The Warm Home Discount scheme is established in regulations until March 2016. This is a major scheme that costs more than £300 million per year and reaches some 2 million households per year. In order to be delivered successfully, the scheme requires simple and clear rules. These include a basic requirement for customers to be named on an electricity account held with a participating supplier.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/06/2015 11:16:04 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton