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1613163

registered interest
date	21/04/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Metals: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many scrap metal operators were prosecuted for (a) not holding a licence and (b) paying cash for scrap metal in the last three years; and how many and what proportion of those prosecutions resulted in a conviction.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	182149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants prosecuted and convicted for offences under the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 (offence code 19534) within the last three years, in the following tool:</p><ul><li><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1135333/outcomes-by-offence-june-2022-revised-2.xlsx" target="_blank">Outcomes by Offence Data Tool: June 2022</a>.</li></ul><p>A breakdown of the prosecutions and convictions for (a) not holding a licence and (b) paying cash for scrap metal for year ending June 2020 to year ending June 2022, issued at all courts in England and Wales, has been provided in Table 1 on a principal offence basis.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 26/04/2023 09:32:09 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name 2023-04-26 PQ 182149 table.xlsx title Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 table
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1613165

registered interest
date	21/04/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Metals: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the number of visits that were carried out by local authority licensing officers to licensed scrap metal dealers in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	182150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office does not compile data on the number of visits carried out by local authority licensing officers to licensed scrap metal dealers.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 26/04/2023 13:37:15 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1613166

registered interest
date	21/04/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Metals: Waste Disposal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of Environment Agency’s time is dedicated to (a) tackling permitted scrap metal operators acting illegally and (b) tackling unpermitted operators in the scrap metal sector accessing Grant-in-Aid funding.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	182151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>The Environment Agency spent a total of 32,446 hours on compliance activities at 7,070 permitted sites across all waste treatment sectors (Hazardous Waste Treatment, Non-Hazardous &amp; Inert Waste Treatment and Metal Recycling) in 2022.</p><p> </p><p>For the metal recycling sector specifically, the Environment Agency undertook 1,762 compliance related activities across 2,152 permitted sites. These compliance activities include site inspections, site audits, check monitoring, procedure reviews and report/data reviews. As part of these compliance checks we recorded 1,396 separate permit breaches. The Environment Agency spent a total 8,811 hours on compliance work in the Metal Recycling Sector. 7,878 of those hours were spent undertaking site inspections.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency does not have data available on the proportion of time spent tackling unpermitted operators in a specific sector. However, we can state that in the financial year 2021/2022 the Environment Agency spent approximately 130,000 hours or 108 FTE tackling illegal waste sites, including illegal scrap metal sites. During that same financial year, a total of 561 illegal waste sites were stopped by the Environment Agency. As an indicator, 94 of these sites were in the scrap metal sector, which represents 17% of all sites stopped. Activities to tackle illegal waste sites are currently funded through government grant-in-aid.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 26/04/2023 12:23:48 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1613167

registered interest
date	21/04/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Metals: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an estimate of the economic cost of metal theft to the UK economy.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	182152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>The Scrap Metal Dealers Act (2013) was introduced to reduce metal theft by strengthening regulation of the scrap metal industry.</p><p>The most recent assessment of the cost of metal theft was at the time of the 2013 Act’s enactment with an estimated cost of £228 million in England and Wales.</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1064996%2FAnnex_A_20220114_Scrap_Metal_Dealers_PIR_FINAL_FOR_PUBLICATION.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CKhadijah.Ishaq%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ce3e445c6675a49b0563708db44d38ff7%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638179447666196114%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=fQ%2F6S9%2BvkqNhqR3hPphj2vmnnCanSlvgdQQq3w7x3W8%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 26/04/2023 13:38:59 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1612962

registered interest
date	20/04/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Energy Company Obligation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many homes are (a) eligible for ECO4 and (b) meet the minimum improvement requirements for ECO4.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	181960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>As set out in the Energy Company Obligation 4 (ECO4) final impact assessment published 1 April 2022, there are an estimated 3.7 million properties eligible under current ECO4 eligibility criteria.</p><p> </p><p>Eligible homes in Bands D-E are subject to the pre-assessment survey to determine whether they can meet the minimum improvement requirement.</p><p> </p><p>The decision to offer any assistance lies solely with ECO-obligated energy suppliers and the installers to whom they sub-contract. The Government does not become involved with any of the private contractual decisions of these parties. Therefore, Government does not determine how many of the eligible homes reach the minimum improvement requirement.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 26/04/2023 15:12:04 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1612996

registered interest
date	20/04/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when she plans to respond to the emails from the hon. Member for Sefton Central of 13 September 2022 and 17 February 2023.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	181961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2023 answer text <p>Correspondence received from hon. Members are responded to within the Cabinet Office guidelines. The Department for Business and Trade has not received the correspondence in question. If the member can resend to <a href="mailto:badenoch.correspondence@trade.gov.uk" target="_blank">badenoch.correspondence@trade.gov.uk</a> this will be dealt with as a priority matter.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 19/05/2023 11:07:06 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1613010

registered interest
date	20/04/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the report Powering up Britain, published on the 30 March 2023, whether he plans to introduce a Net Zero mandate.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	181962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>In 2019 the Government amended the Climate Change Act legally to mandate the UK to achieve net zero by 2050. The Government has met every Carbon Budget target to date and the Carbon Budget Delivery Plan, published as part of Powering Up Britain, provides details on the package of proposals and policies which will enable the UK to meet Carbon Budgets 4, 5 and 6, up to 2037.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 26/04/2023 15:12:14 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1612245

registered interest
date	19/04/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Energy: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the policy paper entitled Powering up Britain, published on 30 March 2023, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the provision of funding for energy efficiency measures installed in buildings.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	181536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>Forty seven percent of homes in England now have reached the Government’s 2035 ambition of achieving EPC C levels, up from 14% in 2010. The Government is firmly committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is investing £6.6 billion over this Parliament on clean heat and improving energy efficiency in buildings. A four-year, £4 billion extension of ECO with ECO4 has also been committed to accelerate efforts to improve homes to meet fuel poverty targets.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 24/04/2023 15:16:10 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1612246

registered interest
date	19/04/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Hydrogen
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the difference in the level of funding provided for hydrogen power in (a) Germany and (b) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	181537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s target of up to 10GW low-carbon production capacity and its Hydrogen Business Model positions the UK well internationally, supporting over 12,000 jobs and £11bn private investment in the UK by 2030. Germany is a key partner in this field with opportunities to develop trade and investment links.</p><p> </p><p>This year, the Government intends to consult on options for market intervention supporting hydrogen to power. Hydrogen to power can provide reliable low-carbon, flexible generation with a decarbonisation pathway for unabated generation, supporting the UK's decarbonisation ambitions and security of supply.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 24/04/2023 15:16:20 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1612317

registered interest
date	19/04/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Energy: Business
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what Government support will be available to help businesses with energy bills in the next 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	181607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>The new Energy Bill Discount Scheme (EBDS) will continue to provide a discount on energy bills for eligible non-domestic customers from this April until March 2024.</p><p> </p><p>Under the EBDS, non-domestic customers who have a contract with a licensed energy supplier will see a unit discount of up to £6.97/MWh automatically applied to their gas bill and a unit discount of up to £19.61/MWh applied to their electricity bill, except for those benefitting from lower energy prices.</p><p> </p><p>Businesses will also benefit from the additional £6bn the Government is investing in energy efficiency to reduce energy consumption in homes and businesses.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 25/04/2023 15:01:01 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson