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1458252

registered interest
date	19/04/2022
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	Fuel Oil: 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 steps the Government is taking to regulate the cost of (a) domestic and (b) non-domestic heating oil.
tabling member constituency	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
tabling member printed	Allan Dorans
uin	155919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>It is essential that consumers of heating oil get a fair deal.  There is an open market for the supply of both domestic and non-domestic heating oil in the UK. This provides the best long-term guarantee of competitive prices.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 27/04/2022 16:47:23 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4740 label Biography information for Allan Dorans

1454884

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
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: Feed-in Tariffs
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 steps his Department is taking to ensure Ofgem domestic feed-in tariff rates accurately reflect energy market pricing for those who generate energy.
tabling member constituency	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
tabling member printed	Allan Dorans
uin	148392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave my Hon. Friend the Member for Stockton South on 28 February 2022 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-02-18/125580" target="_blank">125580</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 31/03/2022 15:47:09 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4740 label Biography information for Allan Dorans

1454885

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
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: Feed-in Tariffs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason domestic feed-in tariffs are not issued on a variable rather than yearly basis to better reflect the variability of the electricity market.
tabling member constituency	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
tabling member printed	Allan Dorans
uin	148393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave my Hon. Friend the Member for Stockton South on 28 February 2022 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-02-18/125580" target="_blank">125580</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 05/04/2022 16:39:57 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4740 label Biography information for Allan Dorans

1404953

registered interest
date	20/01/2022
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	Drax Power Station: Timber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, in the context of wood pellets being sourced from Estonia and burnt at the Drax power station, what his policy is on the minimum number of trees per hectare that need to be replanted for a forest to count as sustainably managed.
tabling member constituency	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
tabling member printed	Allan Dorans
uin	108622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>In accordance with the Government’s strict sustainability criteria, biomass needs to be sourced from areas managed in a way that is consistent with sustainable forest management practices, irrespective of the sourcing location. Further information on sustainable forest management that informs the UK’s sustainability criteria can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://foresteurope.org/workstreams/sustainable-forest-management/" target="_blank">https://foresteurope.org/workstreams/sustainable-forest-management/#</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 27/01/2022 16:22:37 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4740 label Biography information for Allan Dorans

1404954

registered interest
date	20/01/2022
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	Drax Power Station
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 estimate he has made of (a) the number of megawatt-hours of power produced by Drax power station from burning wood pellets in the last year and (b) tonnes of CO2 created by that supply chain; and whether he has made an estimate of the equivalent supply chain carbon cost in the event that that power station was still burning coal.
tabling member constituency	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
tabling member printed	Allan Dorans
uin	108623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>Data regarding the electricity generation in megawatt-hours derived from burning wood pellets at the Drax power station is not available due to commercial confidentiality.</p><p> </p><p>The supply chain target for biomass supported under the Renewable Obligation and Contracts for Difference scheme is 240 kgCO<sub>2eq</sub> per MWh (from 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2020), and 200 kgCO<sub>2eq</sub> per MWh (from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2025), though generators may perform lower than that.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold supply chain emissions data for coal.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 27/01/2022 16:21:22 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4740 label Biography information for Allan Dorans