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63626

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	date	24/06/2014
	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	Renewable Energy: Egypt
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will discuss (a) solar energy and (b) other alternative energies with his Egyptian counterpart.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	202268
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p>The UK Government engages with Egypt on a series of renewable technologies, including solar, through multilateral forms such at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). We also provide some technical assistance, through the World Bank, to help Egypt diversify their energy sources.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Gregory Barker question first answered 01/07/2014 14:35:08 answering member 1389 label Biography information for Lord Barker of Battle
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

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	registered interest
	date	01/07/2014
	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: Prices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to reduce consumer energy prices in-line with changes in the wholesale market prices.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	203217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>In a competitive market, pricing decisions are a commercial matter for companies.</p><p>Consumers can put pressure on companies to reduce prices by switching to the best deal for them – Ofgem's Retail Market Reforms to deliver a simpler, clear market combined with Government's push to significantly reduce switching times and require suppliers to share consumer data with trusted third parties, should make this easier to do.</p><p>The Government supported Ofgem's recent move to write to the largest suppliers, challenging them to explain to consumers the impact of falling wholesale prices on their retail prices. Evidence that large suppliers raise prices more quickly when costs increase than they reduce prices when costs fall was one of the issues underpinning Ofgem's recent referral of the energy markets to the Competition and Markets Authority.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 07/07/2014 16:08:20 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon