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155458

	registered interest
	date	11/11/2014
	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: Competition
	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 he has made of changes in competitiveness in the gas and electricity market for consumers in (a) Pendle constituency, (b) the North West and (c) England.
	tabling member constituency	Pendle
	tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
	uin	214181
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>Great Britain operates as a single energy market and therefore competitiveness is assessed on that basis.</p><p>There are 25 energy suppliers currently operating in the domestic supply market, consisting of 6 major and 19 independent supply companies. Since May 2010, 12 new suppliers have entered the market and they have more than trebled their customer base. Independent suppliers now account for around 9% of the domestic retail market up from 1% in 2010.</p><p>The best way to keep everyone’s bills down is to help people to save energy, ensure fair tariffs and encourage competition. Ofgem’s measures to reform the retail energy market are making it simpler for consumers to understand. While the Government has ensured that everyone is on the cheapest tariff that their supplier offers (that meets their preference).</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 18/11/2014 15:50:25 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

155456

	registered interest
	date	11/11/2014
	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	Coal Gasification: Wales
	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 research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) undertaken on the amount of coal resources in Wales available using gasification technology.
	tabling member constituency	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Edwards
	uin	214376
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department has not commissioned any recent research on coal resources in Wales available using gasification technology. There are currently two conditional underground coal gasification licences in Wales, one in the Dee Estuary, the other in the Loughor Estuary and both issued to Cluff Natural Resources plc by one of DECC’s non-departmental public bodies, the Coal Authority.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 17/11/2014 15:53:51 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3943 label Biography information for Jonathan Edwards

155397

	registered interest
	date	11/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	New Businesses: Hackney
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many new businesses were started in Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
	tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
	uin	214232
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2014 answer text <p>The estimated number of business start-ups (rounded) in the Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency, according to BankSearch data, for the years 2008 to 2013 are shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total estimated number of business start-ups in <br>Hackney North and Stoke Newington</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>1090</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>1190</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1410</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1590</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1570</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1450</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: BankSearch, based on the number of new business bank accounts opened.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 21/11/2014 12:43:51 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott