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1110192

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2019
	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	Coal: Mining
	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 publish the (a) name and (b) location of surface coal mines in the UK that are producing coal for all purposes; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	242072
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>The list of surface coal mines and their locations is below, as of March 2019.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Name of mine</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Location</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bradley</p></td><td><p>Durham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brenkley Lane</p></td><td><p>Newcastle upon Tyne</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Pit East Revised</p></td><td><p>Neath Port Talbot</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ffos-y-Fran</p></td><td><p>Merthyr Tydfil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Field House</p></td><td><p>Durham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glan Lash</p></td><td><p>Carmarthenshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Halton-Le-Gate</p></td><td><p>Northumberland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harrington Reclamation</p></td><td><p>Derbyshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>House of Water</p></td><td><p>East Ayrshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nant Helen</p></td><td><p>Powys</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shotton Surface Mine</p></td><td><p>Northumberland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shotton SW &amp; Triangle</p></td><td><p>Northumberland</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/04/2019 08:52:20 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1110193

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2019
	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	Coal: Mining
	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 publish the (a) names and (b) locations of surface coal mines in the UK that are scheduled to cease producing coal for all purposes; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	242073
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>The list of surface coal mines, their locations and the date of when they are currently licensed until is below, as at March 2019. To note applications can be made to extend licences so the licence date shown is not necessarily when a mine will cease production of coal.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Name of mine</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Location</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Currently Licensed Until </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bradley</p></td><td><p>Durham</p></td><td><p>17/08/2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brenkley Lane</p></td><td><p>Newcastle upon Tyne</p></td><td><p>01/09/2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Pit East Revised</p></td><td><p>Neath Port Talbot</p></td><td><p>21/10/2104</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ffos-y-Fran</p></td><td><p>Merthyr Tydfil</p></td><td><p>04/02/2097</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Field House</p></td><td><p>Durham</p></td><td><p>07/11/2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glan Lash</p></td><td><p>Carmarthenshire</p></td><td><p>31/03/2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Halton-Le-Gate</p></td><td><p>Northumberland</p></td><td><p>04/07/2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harrington Reclamation</p></td><td><p>Derbyshire</p></td><td><p>07/01/2025</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>House of Water</p></td><td><p>East Ayrshire</p></td><td><p>04/12/2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nant Helen</p></td><td><p>Powys</p></td><td><p>08/07/2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shotton Surface Mine</p></td><td><p>Northumberland</p></td><td><p>31/01/2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shotton SW &amp; Triangle</p></td><td><p>Northumberland</p></td><td><p>31/01/2020</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/04/2019 08:53:19 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1110194

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2019
	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	Coal Fired Power Stations
	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 the timeframe is for each active coal-fired power stations in the UK to stop producing electricity; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	242074
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>In January 2018 we set out that all coal-fired power stations in GB will need to close by 1 October 2025 unless they invest to reduce their emissions to 450g CO2 per kWh. The exact timing of closure decisions or investments in abatement technology is a commercial matter for the relevant plant owner.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/04/2019 08:54:19 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1056830

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2019
	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	Minerals: Greenhouse Gas 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, whether his Department monitors the amount of greenhouse gases that are emitted by importing minerals such as (a) clay, (b) chalk, (c) limestone and (d) coal to the UK; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	218240
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK is an Annex I party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The UNFCCC adopted the 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (<a href="https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/" target="_blank">https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/</a>) for Annex I countries in Decision 24/CP.19. The UK is thus required to make use of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines in the compilation of the UK’s greenhouse gas inventory. The guidelines define national greenhouse gas inventories as including only emissions which take place within each country’s territorial boundary. Consequently emissions associated with importing minerals from territories outside the UK are not included.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 14/02/2019 09:51:42 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1046005

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	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	Coal: Russia
	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 much coal imports to the UK from Russia increased in (a) tonnage and (b) proportion terms from (i) 2016-2017 and (ii) 2017-2018; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	211163
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>Coal is a globally traded commodity and the UK sources coal from a range of countries including Russia, US, Colombia and Australia. The UK’s overall consumption of coal has been falling - demand in 2017 was less than a quarter of that seen in 2000. Over that period the tonnage of coal imports from Russia has been on a downward trend falling from 18.1m tonnes in 2012 to 3.9m tonnes in 2017, representing a decrease of 78%. Total UK coal imports in 2016 were at their lowest in 34 years due to lower demand from electricity generators and so this year is unrepresentative when compared to 2017 in isolation. In 2016, 2.3 million tonnes (27%) of the UK’s total coal imports came from Russia and this increased to 3.9 million tonnes (46%) in 2017.</p><p>Comparative data for the period 2017-2018 is not yet available.</p><p>This information has been cited from The Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) available at</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/digest-of-uk-energy-statistics-dukes-2017-main-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/digest-of-uk-energy-statistics-dukes-2017-main-report</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/digest-of-uk-energy-statistics-dukes-2018-main-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/digest-of-uk-energy-statistics-dukes-2018-main-report</a></p><p>and</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/digest-of-uk-energy-statistics-dukes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/digest-of-uk-energy-statistics-dukes</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 31/01/2019 16:07:48 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1046006

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	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	Coal: Manufacturing Industries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the UK government considers coal for (a) steel and (b) cement manufacture to be a strategically important mineral; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	211164
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the importance of coal as a raw material for cement producers, and in primary steel production where coke and iron ore are the principle inputs to the blast furnaces at Scunthorpe and Port Talbot. Currently, there are well-functioning global markets for the types of coal required in the UK industrial base and these materials are not in short supply. As part of the Industrial Strategy we have secured a sector deal with the UK construction sector, and remain in close dialogue with the UK steel sector in pursuit of a similar outcome. Through these conversations neither sector has raised concerns regarding coal. In addition to the Department’s current efforts in encouraging all UK businesses to prepare resilient contingency plans to ensure continuation of supply for their key inputs (including materials) as we leave the EU, all commercial operators in these sectors will have been constantly monitoring their key dependencies and risks as responsible businesses.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 31/01/2019 16:08:02 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1046007

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	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	Coal: Imports
	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 make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing (a) minimum health and safety and (b) environmental production standards that overseas coal producers would have to meet before they are allowed to export coal to the UK; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	211165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>Health, safety and environmental standards for the mining of coal is an important issue. The industry’s Bettercoal initiative works to support the majority of UK coal buyers on responsible sourcing of coal on the global market — particularly around social, environmental, and ethical practices in the supply chain.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 28/01/2019 15:37:57 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

971430

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2018
	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	Natural Gas: 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, how many households in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland are not connected to the mains gas grid; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	172480
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows the latest estimates of households not connected to the gas network by country of the UK. Please note that there is no definitive source for the number of households not on the gas grid, so BEIS estimates these figures by subtracting the number of domestic gas meters from the estimated number of households.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Nation</p></td><td><p>Number of households<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Estimated number of households not connected to the gas network<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>23,229,000</p></td><td><p>3,024,000</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>2,452,000</p></td><td><p>495,000</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>1,342,000</p></td><td><p>225,000</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>730,000<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>497,000<sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>68%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>27,753,000</p></td><td><p>4,241,000</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: (1) <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-national-estimates-of-households-not-connected-to-the-gas-network" target="_blank">Subnational gas consumption 2016</a>, BEIS, except for NI see footnote 3; (2) <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-household-projections" target="_blank">Table 401: Household projections</a>, United Kingdom, 1961-2039, MHCLG 2016 estimate; (3) NI Utility Regulator <a href="https://www.uregni.gov.uk/publications/transparency-reports-2017" target="_blank">Retail Market Monitoring Quarterly Transparency Report</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 17/09/2018 15:21:58 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

971431

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2018
	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, how many households in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland are on a Standard Variable Tariff for their electricity and gas supply; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	172481
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The Department estimates that there are around 15 million households in the UK on standard variable tariffs.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Electricity</p></td><td><p>Gas</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England &amp; Wales</p></td><td><p>13,000,000</p></td><td><p>10,600,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>1,400,000</p></td><td><p>1,100,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>700,000</p></td><td><p>200,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK</p></td><td><p>15,000,000</p></td><td><p>12,000,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Information is collected by Electricity PES (Public Electricity Suppliers) area, so data for England and Wales are not available separately. The above estimates based on survey data include households on standard pre-payment tariffs.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 17/09/2018 15:22:06 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

971432

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2018
	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: Price Caps
	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 in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland will be better off as a result of the Ofgem price cap on domestic energy bills announced on 6 September 2018; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	172482
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The price cap will protect around 11 million households in England, Scotland and Wales on standard variable tariffs (SVTs) in addition to around 5 million people already protected by the safeguard tariff. Of those SVT households that will be protected by the price cap, the Department estimates that around 1 million households are in Scotland and around 10 million in England &amp; Wales. Energy policy is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland, where there are existing arrangements to cap certain prices in the market.</p><p> </p><p>Under Ofgem’s proposals those on SVTs will be better off, with some customers on the most expensive tariffs saving around £138 a year.</p><p> </p><p>These figures are based on Ofgem’s typical domestic consumption values of 3.1MWh per year of electricity and 12MWh per year of gas.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 17/09/2018 15:22:13 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies