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649555

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Winter Fuel Payment: Ashfield
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in Ashfield constituency were subject to a decrease in winter fuel payments as a result of the expiration of the top-up in 2011; and what the average such decrease was.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	55912
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>Winter Fuel Payments are made at rates of between £100 and £300 depending on household circumstances. In the March 2010 Budget, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an additional one-off payment for winter 2010/11 of £100 for over-80s households and £50 for all other households eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment.</p><p> </p><p>National Statistics on the number of recipients of Winter Fuel Payments, broken down by Parliamentary constituency and age group, are published for each year between 2009/10 and 2015/16 at</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/winter-fuel-payments-caseload-and-household-figures" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/winter-fuel-payments-caseload-and-household-figures</a>.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 06/12/2016 13:55:30 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

747614

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2017
	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: 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 steps are being taken to encourage householders to seek the cheapest energy deals available to them to help them to cut energy bills.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	2376
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>We are working with the sector to make it quicker and easier to switch supplier and are working with Ofgem to move to even faster and more reliable switching.</p><p>Ofgem are working on developing better ways to engage consumers and on 3 July announced trials to help customers on expensive standard tariffs find and switch to cheaper energy deals.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 10/07/2017 15:34:21 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford previous answer version 2446 answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

747615

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2017
	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: 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 steps are being taken to protect poorer households from fuel poverty caused by the high prices of pre-payment energy meters.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	2377
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>Customers in fuel poverty use a range of methods to pay their energy bills. Latest BEIS Fuel Poverty data published on 29 June 2017 shows that in 2015, of the 2,885,000 households who paid for their gas supply by prepayment meter, 613,000 were fuel poor. Of the 3,550,000 million households who paid for their electricity supply by prepayment meter, 776,000 were fuel poor.</p><p>From 1 April this year, as a result of action by Competition Markets Authority, a cap on the amount energy suppliers can charge prepayment customers was introduced. The cap covers 4.5 million households saving many dual fuel customers £80 a year.</p><p>On 3 July Ofgem announced proposals to cap warrant charges to install prepayment meters and ban these charges altogether for the most vulnerable.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 10/07/2017 15:34:05 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford previous answer version 2443 answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

748353

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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: 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 information his Department holds on how many households are on energy suppliers' standard variable rates.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	2705
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>BEIS run a quarterly survey of domestic electricity and gas suppliers. This survey has coverage of around 85 per cent of the market. Data is supplied to BEIS, on numbers of customers by tariff by region by payment type, but as this data is supplied in confidence, individual tariff or company data cannot be made publically available.</p><p>Aggregate statistics are produced and published as part of our quarterly energy prices (QEP) publication. In quarter 1 2017, we estimate 66 per cent of standard electricity and 65 per cent of gas customers were on variable tariffs. Our current methodology does not breakout standard variable tariffs from other variable tariffs.</p><p>Data can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-price-stastics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-price-stastics</a></p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 10/07/2017 16:31:49 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero