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1171449

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2020
	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	Solar Power: Housing
	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 the quantity of domestic rooftop solar PV installed in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017, (d) 2018 and (e) 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	4396
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>(a) - (d) The generating capacity and number of domestic solar PV installations for 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 is published by the department at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/monthly-central-feed-in-tariff-register-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/monthly-central-feed-in-tariff-register-statistics</a>. This data is based on the Central FiTs Register (CFR) of installations accredited on the Feed in Tariff scheme.</p><p>(e) Figures for solar deployment up to November 2019 are published by the department at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solar-photovoltaics-deployment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solar-photovoltaics-deployment</a></p><p>These figures are based on BEIS’s major power producers survey, the Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) and the Microgeneration Certification Scheme database (MCS).</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 23/01/2020 11:35:05 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1156141

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2019
	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	Green Deal Scheme: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many appeals her Department has received under the Green Deal Scheme in the last 12 months, and in which constituencies the appellants are based.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
	tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
	uin	5086
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2019 answer text <p>230 appeals have been received in the last 12 months. The following table shows the constituencies in which the appellants are based.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Parliamentary constituency</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of appeals</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barrow and Furness</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Batley and Spen</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Berwick-upon-Tweed</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham, Erdington</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham, Hodge Hill</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham, Ladywood</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham, Perry Barr</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bishop Auckland</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackley and Broughton</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackpool South</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blaydon</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blyth Valley</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton North East</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton South East</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bradford East</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol East</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bury North</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bury South</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Carlisle</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of Durham</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cleethorpes</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Colne Valley</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Copeland</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daventry</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ealing Central and Acton</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Easington</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fylde</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucester</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grantham and Stamford</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Great Grimsby</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Halton</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hartlepool</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Houghton and Sunderland South</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Huddersfield</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Huntingdon</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ipswich</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jarrow</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston upon Hull East</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingswood</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Knowsley</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancaster and Fleetwood</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leeds East</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicester South</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leigh</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool, Walton</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool, Wavertree</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool, West Derby</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester, Withington</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Middlesbrough</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Milton Keynes South</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newcastle upon Tyne Central</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Durham</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Somerset</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Swindon</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Tyneside</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West Cambridgeshire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West Durham</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham East</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham North</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham South</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pendle</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Preston</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rossendale and Darwen</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rushcliffe</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sedgefield</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield Central</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield South East</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sherwood</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southport</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stalybridge and Hyde</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stockton South</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stockton North</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tewkesbury</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tynemouth</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Walsall South</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Washington and Sunderland West</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wentworth and Dearne</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Lancashire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Suffolk</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Winchester</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Workington</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Wales</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aberavon</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cardiff South and Penarth</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cynon Valley</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Llanelli</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newport West</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rhondda</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swansea East</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Airdrie and Shotts</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central Ayrshire</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Dunbartonshire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Lothian</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Renfrewshire</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Edinburgh North and Leith</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Edinburgh South</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Edinburgh West</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Falkirk</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow East</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow North</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow North East</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow North West</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow South West</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glenrothes</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Inverclyde</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kilmarnock and Loudoun</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lanark and Hamilton East</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Linlithgow and East Falkirk</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Livingston</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlothian</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Motherwell and Wishaw</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Ayrshire and Arran</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ochil and South Perthshire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Paisley and Renfrewshire North</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Paisley and Renfrewshire South</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Perth and North Perthshire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rutherglen and Hamilton West</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stirling</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Dunbartonshire</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Constituency not yet identified</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 31/10/2019 13:55:15 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

1242847

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2020
	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	Green Homes Grant Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many households have applied for grants under the Green Homes Grant scheme to date.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	102869
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2020 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">As of 15:00 on 14 October 2020, the Green Homes Grant voucher scheme had received 17,218 grant applications.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">As of 16:00 on 20 October 2020, the Green Homes Grant voucher scheme had received 20,903 grant applications.</ins></p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 20/10/2020 14:41:29 question first ministerially corrected 02/11/2020 14:41:49 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng previous answer version 55540 answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1185429

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2020
	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	Private Rented Housing: Energy
	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 has taken to ensure that energy efficiency measures are implemented in the private rented sector.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	29940
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p><em>The Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property)(England and wales) Regulations 2015</em> require that, subject to certain exemptions, domestic and non-domestic private rented sector landlords improve their properties to a minimum energy efficiency rating of E by: April 2020 for domestic property; and April 2023 for non-domestic property.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has published detailed guidance to assist landlords in complying with their obligations under the existing regulations, and is conducting enforcement pilots with Local Authorities to develop best practice around enforcement of the regulations. The Department has also launched a landlord exemptions register, a requirement of the Regulations, which is used by enforcement authorities to help target their enforcement activities.</p><p> </p><p>On 15 October 2019, the government published a consultation on the future target for the non-domestic private rented sector regulations alongside the government’s response to the Committee on Climate Change Progress Report. The consultation, which closed on 7 January 2020, set out that the government’s preferred target was for all non-domestic rented buildings to achieve an EPC Band B by 2030, where cost-effective. A government response is due to be published later this year. The government will also consult in due course on options for tightening the standards required of domestic private rented properties over time.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 24/03/2020 17:56:09 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1190838

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2020
	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	Pneumoconiosis: Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people have put in claims to the Coal Workers Pneumoconiosis Compensation Scheme in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire, (c) the borough of Rotherham and (d) Rother Valley constituency in the last calendar year.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
	uin	40823
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>A breakdown of claims received under the Coal Workers Pneumoconiosis Compensation Scheme by area requested during the last full calendar year (2019) are set out below:</p><p>(a) 132 (England)</p><p>(b) 41 (Yorkshire)</p><p>(c) 16 (Borough of Rotherham)</p><p>(d) 3 (Rother Valley Constituency)</p><p> </p><p>For information:</p><ul><li>The address of the claimant has been used (as opposed to using the last known postcode of a deceased miner) to define the origin of each claim.</li><li>‘The Borough of Rotherham’ has been taken as being postcode districts S60-S63, S65 and S66.</li><li>‘Rother Valley Constituency’ was ascertained using <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmembers.parliament.uk%2Fconstituencies%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CJeremy.Cousins%40beis.gov.uk%7Cee0ef6c77fae4e2cf19b08d7ec1fd0ac%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C1%7C637237493855844427&amp;sdata=%2Bd7bPhjjPk%2ByLXWF8rHglymIKPK1qO1jbrSmyC9RUpU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://members.parliament.uk/constituencies/</a>.</li></ul> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 05/05/2020 14:56:01 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1229203

	registered interest
	date	28/08/2020
	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	Carbon Emissions: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Government's response to the consultation on the future of UK carbon pricing published on 1 June 2020, what assessment he has made of the potential (a) merits and (b) costs of a carbon free and dividend policy; and for what reasons his policy is not to implement that policy at this time.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
	tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
	uin	82056
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2020 answer text <p>A carbon fee and dividend is an alternative form of carbon pricing policy. The UK already prices carbon through, for example, our participation in the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS).</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government and Devolved Administrations are establishing a UK Emissions Trading System, with increased ambition on carbon pricing. The new system will ensure a smooth transition for businesses as the UK is set to leave EU system after the Transition Period at the end of the year, while also allowing us to have autonomy over its design and governance.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government has, on 21 July, also published a consultation on the design of a domestic carbon emission tax as an alternative to a UK ETS. This option will ensure a carbon price remains in place in the UK in all scenarios.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 08/09/2020 13:34:31 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1219873

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2020
	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	Carbon Emissions
	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 the Government has decided not to implement a carbon fee dividends scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Devizes
	tabling member printed	Danny Kruger
	uin	67828
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2020 answer text <p>A carbon fee and dividend is an alternative form of carbon pricing policy. The UK already prices carbon through, for example, our participation in the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS).</p><p> </p><p>UK Government is establishing a UK Emissions Trading System, with increased ambition on carbon pricing. The new system will ensure a smooth transition for businesses as the UK is set to leave EU system after the Transition Period at the end of the year, while also allowing us to have autonomy over its design and governance. Further detail can be found in The UK Government’s and Devolved Administrations’ full response to the public Consultation on the Future of UK carbon pricing, published on 1 June.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 10/07/2020 12:48:40 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4858 label Biography information for Danny Kruger

1220537

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2020
	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	Housing: Insulation
	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 the skills gap in the workforce required to retrofit the UK’s housing stock with insulation; and if he will take steps to close that gap.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	68749
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2020 answer text <p>A good supply of skilled workers is essential in order to meet our aspiration for as many UK homes as possible to be EPC Band C by 2035, where practical, cost-effective and affordable. In 2018, the domestic and non-domestic energy efficiency sectors employed 153,600 people, but many more will be required. The Government has sponsored the development of Trustmark and PAS 2035 to ensure high standards among energy efficiency installers. The Government is further funding six local supply chain demonstration pilots to support development and training of the supply chain for home energy retrofit. We will continue to work with installers and training providers in order to grow the sector.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 13/07/2020 16:42:41 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1218273

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2020
	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: Conservation
	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 assessment his Department has made of the availability of skilled workers to complete energy efficiency retrofitting for housing stock throughout the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	65191
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2020 answer text <p>A good supply of skilled workers is essential in order to meet our aspiration for as many UK homes as possible to be EPC band C by 2035, where practical, cost-effective and affordable. The Government has sponsored the development of Trustmark and PAS 2035 to ensure high standards among energy efficiency installers. We will continue to work with installers and training providers in order to grow the sector.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 06/07/2020 16:54:53 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1245379

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2020
	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 Supply: Costs
	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 discussion he has had with the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets on establishing a Right to Local Supply to ensure the costs of supplying energy are proportionate to the size of the supplier.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	107081
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>A key aim for Ofgem is to ensure that customers retain choice and flexibility in the market and get good value and service from their supplier.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem can award supply licences that are restricted to a geographical area and has just consulted on how to use this facility more effectively to bring forward innovation. Ofgem’s Licence Lite regime also aims to reduce the cost and complexity of entering and operating in the market for suppliers.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem’s Innovation Link helps innovators navigate the sector’s arrangements and their Energy Regulation Sandbox enables trails and rollout of new products, services, business models and methodologies without some of the usual rules applying.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 02/11/2020 15:46:18 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney