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391414

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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	Wind Power: Subsidies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the removal of onshore windfarm subsidy on business growth in the wind energy sector over the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
tabling member printed	Mr Nick Clegg
uin	8091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>As part of the Parliamentary process, the Department will shortly publish an Impact Assessment that considers the potential effects of its proposals for closing the Renewables Obligation to onshore wind. This will be made available on the Department’s website.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/09/2015 15:44:47 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1563 label Biography information for Mr Nick Clegg

391415

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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	Climate Change Convention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what measures she is taking ahead of the COP21 UN Climate Change Summit to ensure successful outcomes.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
tabling member printed	Mr Nick Clegg
uin	8062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed to securing an ambitious legally binding, global Agreement on climate change at the Conference of the Parties (COP) 21 to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris in December this year.</p><p>My right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, are actively engaging with their international counterparts ahead of negotiations in Paris. In June, the Prime Minister joined other G7 leaders in calling for an ambitious climate package to be agreed in Paris, strong language on future ambition and commitment to a long term decarbonisation. The Secretary of State is also engaging with her EU and international counterparts, NGOs and businesses to discuss how we can best deliver on our priorities for a Paris Agreement which includes emission reduction commitments from all countries and a regular review of mitigation ambition alongside a global long term goal, and a set of rules that ensure transparency and accountability of commitments to enable the world to track progress.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/09/2015 08:41:59 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1563 label Biography information for Mr Nick Clegg

391416

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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: Meters
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 she has made of the total cost of smart meters being delivered to (a) 100 per cent of customers and (b) 80 per cent of customers by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Rochester and Strood
tabling member printed	Kelly Tolhurst
uin	8075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s policy is to make the benefits of smart meters available to all consumers so they can take control of their energy consumption, make better informed decisions on their energy supplier and switch more easily. With a lower target energy suppliers could choose to target the rollout at consumers who were the easiest to service, potentially excluding important groups from the benefits of smart metering.</p><p>The Government’s Smart Metering Impact Assessment projects a strong case for a near universal rollout. It estimates a net present value benefit of around £6 billion over the period to 2030, with total benefits of around £17 billion and costs of around £11 billion.</p><p>Changes in the rollout target would affect both costs and benefits and our provisional estimate is that an 80% rollout target would reduce the net present value by around £2 billion. This reflects that the fixed costs of the smart metering system would be shared across a smaller number of consumers, that there would be additional operational costs for energy suppliers running two metering systems at scale, in particular from needing to continue to manually read basic meters, and that certain network benefits would not be achieved where these require a comprehensive deployment of meters.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/09/2015 15:56:47 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst

391417

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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: Meters
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 she is taking to ensure that the smart meter programme will not exceed the projected costs set out in her Department's impact assessment published in January 2014.
tabling member constituency	Rochester and Strood
tabling member printed	Kelly Tolhurst
uin	8076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p>The smart meters programme is designed within the legal framework for the GB energy market. This is based on energy companies competing against each other to supply energy to consumers.</p><p>The Government is requiring all energy suppliers through their licence conditions to deliver smart metering. The energy companies have strong commercial incentives to do this as efficiently as possible, all along their supply chain.</p><p>Ofgem is responsible for regulating the energy market and is able to intervene where suppliers do not meet their licence conditions. In addition, the Data and Communications Company is regulated by Ofgem to ensure that its services are provided in an economic and efficient manner.</p><p>The Government is monitoring progress by all parties on whom the smart metering roll-out depends, to ensure benefits to consumers are delivered.</p><p>There is a strong business case for rolling out smart meters. The total cost of this national infrastructure programme needs to be looked at in the context of its overall net benefits, expected to be around £6 billion.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/09/2015 15:57:50 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst

391418

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the reason is for the difference between the estimated cost of the Smart Metering Implementation Programme of £10.9 billion included in her Department's Third Annual Report on the roll-out of Smart Meters, December 2014 and the whole life costs of £19.25 billion included in the Major Project Authority's Portfolio data for her Department of June 2015.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	8015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p>The Annual Report on the roll-out of Smart Meters and the Major Project Authority’s report use the same underlying data, taken from the Programme’s Impact Assessment:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-meter-roll-out-for-the-domestic-and-small-and-medium-non-domestic-sectors-gb-impact-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-meter-roll-out-for-the-domestic-and-small-and-medium-non-domestic-sectors-gb-impact-assessment</a>.</p><p>The difference between the estimated costs is due to the two reports using different methodologies to present the same cost information of the Programme.</p><p>The Annual Report on the roll-out of Smart Meters expresses information in real prices and present values. This follows Treasury guidance for policy appraisal and is aimed at providing future cost and benefit information in a way that is most meaningful for decision making.</p><p>The cost figures in the Major Project Authority’s report are expressed in nominal terms and are not discounted to present value terms. This is aimed at achieving comparability across Government projects but can result in different figures between Impact Assessments and the data reported by the Major Project Authority.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/09/2015 15:55:21 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

391419

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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	British Gas: Solar Power
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 take steps to ensure that developers are required to register solar panels with British Gas before they sell their properties.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	7981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The Feed-in Tariff (FITs) scheme pays consumers for small-scale generation of their own electricity through renewable sources, such as solar panels. Major energy companies, like British Gas, as well as some smaller independent suppliers, process applications and make Feed-in Tariff payments, in their role as FIT Licensees, for sub 50kW solar PV and wind installations.</p><p>However, final confirmation of an installation’s eligibility for FITs is carried out by Ofgem, not by British Gas, before it is entered on the Central FITs Register (CFR). Solar PV products and installers are certified under the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS).</p><p>Additionally, the Renewable Energy Consumer Code and Home Insulation and Energy Systems Contractors Scheme, approved under the Chartered Trading Standards Institute consumer code approval scheme, provide protection for consumers participating in Government incentive schemes, such as Feed-in Tariffs.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 7980 question first answered 07/09/2015 16:10:21 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

391420

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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	Solar Power: British Gas
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 take steps to ensure that British Gas increases the transparency and efficacy of the process for registering solar panels.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	7980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The Feed-in Tariff (FITs) scheme pays consumers for small-scale generation of their own electricity through renewable sources, such as solar panels. Major energy companies, like British Gas, as well as some smaller independent suppliers, process applications and make Feed-in Tariff payments, in their role as FIT Licensees, for sub 50kW solar PV and wind installations.</p><p>However, final confirmation of an installation’s eligibility for FITs is carried out by Ofgem, not by British Gas, before it is entered on the Central FITs Register (CFR). Solar PV products and installers are certified under the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS).</p><p>Additionally, the Renewable Energy Consumer Code and Home Insulation and Energy Systems Contractors Scheme, approved under the Chartered Trading Standards Institute consumer code approval scheme, provide protection for consumers participating in Government incentive schemes, such as Feed-in Tariffs.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 7981 question first answered 07/09/2015 16:10:21 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

391421

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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 progress she has made on reducing the time taken for homeowners to switch energy and gas supplier; and what forecast she has made of the effect on switching times of the completion of the smart metering implementation programme.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	7974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department has worked with Energy UK, Ofgem, suppliers and other key industry partners to develop and implement proposals which have enabled domestic customers to switch supplier within 17 days, half the time it previously took.</p><p>The roll-out of smart metering will make switching energy supplier easier and faster and is a key enabler to 24-hour switching. The Government announced in the Summer Budget 2015 that it will work with Ofgem with the ambition of introducing 24-hour switching by the end of 2018.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/09/2015 08:37:52 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

391422

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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: Meters
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 review the effects to date of the use of smart meters; and if she will estimate how much consumers reduce gas and electricity usage once a smart meter has been installed.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	7975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p>Our central estimate of energy savings to domestic consumers as a result of smart metering is 2.8% for electricity every year in comparison to what consumption would have been in that year without smart meters (prepayment and credit) and 2% for gas (credit) and 0.5% for gas (prepayment). The energy savings assumptions are conservative in comparison to international evidence.</p><p>In March 2015 DECC published research on the effects of the early rollout of smart meters – The Early Learning Project:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-metering-early-learning-project-and-small-scale-behaviour-trials" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-metering-early-learning-project-and-small-scale-behaviour-trials</a>.</p><p>The Early Learning Projects findings around levels of energy consumption reduction are that DECC’s steady-state projections for the main roll-out fall within the confidence intervals of the energy consumption reductions observed in the research for both gas and electricity. However evidence suggests that larger energy savings are achievable; it is realistic to expect durable energy savings of 3 per cent provided engagement is effective, and larger savings are feasible in the future.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/09/2015 16:02:38 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

391423

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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	Climate Change
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 it her policy to obtain binding commitments from her international counterparts at forthcoming global talks on climate change.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	7922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The UK Government is committed to securing at the Conference of the Parties (COP) 21 in Paris, an ambitious, legally binding global Agreement on climate change with mitigation commitments from all Parties and a set of rules that ensure transparency and accountability of commitments that will allow the world to track progress.</p><p>My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, is working closely with her international counterparts to pave the way for an ambitious deal. In June, the Prime Minister joined other G7 leaders in calling for an ambitious climate package to be agreed in Paris. But there remains a lot of work to do. My Ministerial colleagues and I will take every opportunity to press for an agreement that meets these objectives.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/09/2015 08:40:57 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern