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658625

registered interest
date	14/12/2016
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 Intensive Industries: Trade Competitiveness
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 he is taking to secure contingency funding for the continuation of compensation for the indirect costs of the Renewables Obligation and small-scale Feed-in Tariffs for energy-intensive industries beyond April 2017.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	57654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2016 answer text <p>We are engaging with the European Commission about our state aid pre-notification to move from compensation to exemption for the indirect costs of the Renewables Obligation and small-scale Feed-in Tariffs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/12/2016 14:30:05 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

658627

registered interest
date	14/12/2016
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 Intensive Industries: Trade Competitiveness
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 additional options he has assessed to compensate directly competing energy intensive industries against the costs of the Renewables Obligation and Feed-in Tariffs if state aid approval is not granted.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	57585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2016 answer text <p>We notified the European Commission of our proposal to compensate direct competitors to eligible energy intensive businesses last year. We are assessing a number of options that may be available to us within the scope of the EU state aid guidelines.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/12/2016 10:09:22 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

658629

registered interest
date	14/12/2016
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 Intensive Industries: Trade Competitiveness
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 progress has been made on the Government's pre-notification of an application for state aid approval to (a) partially exempt energy intensive industries from the costs of the Renewables Obligation and Feed-in Tariffs and (b) compensate direct competitors against the cost of the Renewables Obligation and Feed-in Tariffs; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	57586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2016 answer text <p>We are in discussions with the European Commission about our state aid pre-notification to move from compensation to exemption for the indirect cost of the Renewables Obligation and small-scale Feed-in Tariffs.</p><p> </p><p>We notified the European Commission of our proposal to compensate direct competitors to eligible energy intensive businesses last year.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/12/2016 10:11:15 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

658029

registered interest
date	13/12/2016
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 Intensive Industries: Trade Competitiveness
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 he is taking to expedite the Government's application to the European Commission to exempt energy intensive industries from the indirect costs of the Renewables Obligation and small scale Feed-in Tariffs and ensure legislation is in place by April 2017.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	57426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>We are engaging with the European Commission about our state aid pre-notification to move from compensation to exemption for the indirect cost of the Renewables Obligation (RO) and small-scale Feed-in Tariffs (FiT). We aim to introduce the exemption for Energy Intensive Industries (EIIs) from 1 April 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The Government continues to provide relief to those EIIs most affected by the rising cost of electricity and has paid over £360m in compensation since August 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/12/2016 14:34:35 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

658030

registered interest
date	13/12/2016
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 Intensive Industries: Trade Competitiveness
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 he is taking to secure contingency funding for the continuation of compensation for the indirect costs of the Renewables Obligation and small scale Feed-in Tariffs for energy intensive industries beyond April 2017.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	57425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>We aim to introduce an exemption for Energy Intensive Industries from the indirect costs of the Renewables Obligation and small-scale Feed-in Tariffs from 1 April 2017. It is not currently necessary to allocate contingency funding for the continuation of compensation beyond April 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/12/2016 12:55:21 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin