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1696128

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2024
	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	INEOS: Belgium
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the notice by UK Export Finance entitled Category A project supported: INEOS Project One, Belgium, published on 14 April 2023, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of that decision on the development of (a) energy generation and (b) energy production sites in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	18755
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2024 answer text <p><strong></strong>UK Export Finance (UKEF) has not made an assessment of the potential impact on the development of (a) energy generation and (b) energy production sites in the UK.</p><p>In its role as the United Kingdom’s export credit agency, UKEF has issued a guarantee to commercial lenders who are funding the project. That support will help to secure new export opportunities for UK businesses that otherwise may not have been possible.</p><p>As with every transaction that it supports, UKEF conducted rigorous due diligence in line with the government’s policies and obligations to inform its decision-making on Project One. This included consideration of environmental and climate impacts.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 22/03/2024 14:22:45 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1486578

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2022
	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	Renewable Heat Incentive 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, if his Department will publish the recipients of support under the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	31170
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy does not intend to publish the list of participants in the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 11/07/2022 15:38:43 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1485116

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2022
	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	Biofuels: Boilers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will undertake a review of the cost of wood pellets used to fuel biomass boilers in the context of the recent rise in the cost of living.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	28456
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government is keeping energy billsunder constant review. The Government recently announced a £400 grant to help households with their energy bills this winter, plus an additional £650 to help low income households, £150 for those on disability benefits, and a £300 payment for recipients of Winter Fuel Payments, as part of a £15 billion support package to tackle the increased cost of living. This brings the total cost of living support to £37 billion this year.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 07/07/2022 12:23:46 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1483591

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2022
	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: Billing
	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 discussions he has had with representatives from energy firms on limits on payments billed via direct debit to help ensure credit balances do not become excessive.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	25937
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2022 answer text <p>BEIS Ministers regularly meet with stakeholders, including energy suppliers, to discuss a range of energy retail market issues. Energy suppliers should not be increasing their customers’ direct debits by more than is necessary. The Government welcomes Ofgem’s announcement of strict supervision of direct debits and credit balances.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem published a consultation 20 June on strengthening the existing requirements for licenced energy suppliers to set domestic consumers’ fixed direct debits according to the best and most current information available to them. The consultation can be viewed online at: <a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/statutory-consultation-strengthening-fixed-direct-debit-rules" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/statutory-consultation-strengthening-fixed-direct-debit-rules</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 05/07/2022 14:45:31 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1472839

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2022
	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, pursuant to his Answer of 1 April 2022 to Question 146696 on Carbon Emissions: Coal and Timber, what quantity of carbon dioxide emissions did the UK report internationally as a memo item for (a) Drax Group from the burning of wood in its power station and (b) all UK bioenergy production in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	23778
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2022 answer text <p>Defra publish the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register to comply with the Kyiv Protocol requirements. For 2020, the most recent year with available data, the total carbon dioxide emissions from the Drax site in North Yorkshire were 14.3 million tonnes and the carbon dioxide emissions excluding biomass were 1.53 million tonnes. This implies that burning wood at the Drax power station emitted 12.8 million tonnes of biomass derived carbon dioxide.</p><p> </p><p>The quantity of carbon dioxide emissions from biogenic sources that the UK reported internationally to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for 2020 was 47.198 million tonnes.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 01/07/2022 11:59:04 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1472838

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2022
	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	Drax Power Station: Timber
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2022 to Question 132331 on Drax Power Station: Timber, what was the age profile of forests felled for use in the Drax power station.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	23777
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government does not hold this data. Generators only receive subsidies for biomass that complies with strict sustainability criteria, which includes requirements under both land and greenhouse gas criteria. More information on the sustainability criteria can be found on the Ofgem website <a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/renewables-obligation-sustainability-criteria" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/renewables-obligation-sustainability-criteria</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 01/07/2022 11:51:42 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1472534

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2022
	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	Boilers: Heating
	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 findings of openDemocracy on the disparity between (a) the time it takes for some biomass boilers to pay for themselves and (b) owners continuing to receive payments in excess of the cost of fuel, if he will take steps to (i) identify and (ii) retrospectively reduce payments to people who are in receipt of a subsidy for heating systems that have already returned to the owner the cost of their installation.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	23356
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to stop or reduce retrospectively tariff payments for existing Renewable Heat Incentive participants.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 30/06/2022 15:43:12 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 9337 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1472535

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2022
	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	Renewable Heat Incentive 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, if the Government will launch an independent inquiry into the British non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	23357
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>The National Audit Office undertook a review of the Renewable Heat Incentive in 2018. The Government does not intend to carry out a independent inquiry.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 27/06/2022 14:37:47 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1472523

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2022
	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	Renewable Heat Incentive 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, what recent estimate he has made of the total lifetime payments to participants under the British Renewable Heat Initiative scheme through to 2042 for the (a) domestic and (b) non-domestic scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	23355
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>The Renewable Heat Initiative (RHI) will pay participants until March 2041 and BEIS has so far committed £6,414million for expenditure until financial year 2022/23. The total lifetime payments estimates are inherently uncertain as they depend on the future volume of heat that will be produced and on the future tariffs at which the heat produced will be paid.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 27/06/2022 14:36:50 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1469962

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2022
	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 Bills Rebate: Diesel
	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 people who are not connected to the electricity grid and rely on diesel generators will receive their entitlement through the Energy Bills Support Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	17041
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government is aware that not all households have their electricity provided through a domestic electricity supply contract and are connected to the electricity grid. This was covered the Government’s technical consultation (Energy Bills Support Scheme – Managing the impact of the energy price shock on consumer bills) which closed on 23 May. Households without a domestic electricity supply contract are not eligible for the Scheme and the government is exploring options for other ways in which they might receive similar support. Responses to the consultation are being analysed and the Government’s response will be published in the summer.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 17039 17040 question first answered 21/06/2022 14:52:37 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day