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date	26/04/2023
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	Social Security Benefits: Broadband
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to increase take-up of broadband social tariffs among recipients of income-related benefits.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	182863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions has ensured all operational staff in Jobcentres, Universal Credit service centres, Pension Centres, and partnership managers who engage with claimants and stakeholders are able to signpost to the Ofcom webpage which promotes broadband social tariffs.</p><p> </p><p>DWP have updated guidance, delivered teach-in’s to Work Coaches and published internal communications highlighting the importance of identifying claimants who are digitally excluded and signposting to the support available, including broadband social tariffs.</p><p> </p><p>We have also developed an Application Programme Interface (API) which allows Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to verify for free, with the customers’ permission, if they are in receipt of an eligible benefit for the broadband social tariff.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 02/05/2023 15:58:40 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

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date	23/10/2018
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	Renewable Energy: EU Law
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 provisions of the EU Renewable Energy Directive II recast will be transposed into UK law in the event that the UK leaves the EU next March.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	182863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>Leaving the EU will not affect the UK's commitment to domestic and international efforts to tackle climate change. Renewable technologies now form a very significant part of the UK’s energy mix and will continue to do so into the future. Renewable energy will have a key role to play in delivering our ambitious Clean Growth Strategy. The UK will consider transposition of the Renewable Energy Directive II recast as part of the wider EU Exit negotiations on our future energy partnership.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 182864 question first answered 29/10/2018 15:45:27 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd