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672749

registered interest
date	13/01/2017
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: Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland
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 assessment his Department has made of the effect of the UK leaving the EU on the future of the single energy market on the island of Ireland.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Stephen Gethins
uin	59922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>The Department recognises the unique issues raised by the Single Electricity Market on the island of Ireland, and is committed to continue working with the Northern Ireland Executive, the Irish Government and with the EU to make sure that Northern Ireland continues to have access to an affordable, secure and sustainable supply of energy for business and domestic use.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/01/2017 10:48:27 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4434 label Biography information for Stephen Gethins

672750

registered interest
date	13/01/2017
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	Wind Power: Subsidies
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 any of the applicants for developing onshore wind farms have been informed that subsidy will be available to developments not beginning production until after March 2017.
tabling member constituency	Montgomeryshire
tabling member printed	Glyn Davies
uin	59974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>The Renewables Obligation (RO) support scheme closed early to new onshore wind capacity in Great Britain after 12 May 2016, with limited grace periods allowing projects meeting certain criteria to gain accreditation up to 31 January 2019. The early closure and grace periods were brought into effect by the Energy Act 2016 and the rules are explained in guidance available on Ofgem’s website.<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> When developers apply for support under the RO scheme, Ofgem assesses their application in line with the relevant legislation and informs them if their station meets the criteria for accreditation (including the conditions for any relevant grace period).</p><p>Support for onshore wind installations of up to 5 MW total installed capacity is available through the Feed-in Tariff scheme.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Available at: <a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/system/files/docs/2016/10/renewables_obligation_-_closure_of_the_scheme_to_onshore_wind_england_wales_and_scotland.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/system/files/docs/2016/10/renewables_obligation_-_closure_of_the_scheme_to_onshore_wind_england_wales_and_scotland.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/01/2017 10:49:12 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4041 label Biography information for Glyn Davies

672206

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
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: Meters
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 information his Department holds on the number of SMETS 1 (a) electricity and (b) gas smart meters installed to date.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Poulter
uin	59767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government publishes quarterly reports on the number of smart electricity and gas meters installed in Great Britain as part of its Smart Meters statistics collection, which is available here: www.gov.uk/government/collections/smart-meters-statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The latest report was published on 22 December 2016 and shows that, at the end of September 2016, across the domestic and non-domestic sector, approximately (a) 2,534,000 electricity and (b) 1,829,500 gas smart meters had been installed.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/01/2017 17:01:19 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

672208

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
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 Capture and Storage
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 money the Government invested in carbon capture and storage projects in each year between 2010 and 2015.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	59722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2017 answer text <p>In each year between 2010 and 2015, the Government has invested the following in carbon capture and storage projects:</p><ul><li>£1.39 million between 2011 and 2012</li><li>£ 4.87 million in 2012/13;</li><li>£ 15.45 million in 2013/14;</li><li>£ 50.60 million in 2014/15; and</li><li>£ 33.87 million in 2015/16.</li></ul><p>Figures for the 2015/16 financial year are provisional.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/01/2017 17:13:36 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

672209

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
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: Meters
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 information his Department holds on the number of (a) electricity and (b) gas smart meters that have been installed and subsequently failed to send readings due to poor signal coverage.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Poulter
uin	59769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not hold information on the adequacy of the signal coverage of the communications systems currently used by energy suppliers for sending and receiving information from smart meters to their business systems. More than 4.9 million smart and advanced meters were operating across homes and business in Great Britain at the end of September 2016, using these communications systems as part of the Foundation Stage of the roll-out of smart metering.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/01/2017 14:39:25 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

672210

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
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: Meters
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 information his Department holds on the number of (a) electricity and (b) gas smart meter installations that have required at least one additional visit to a property because the meter did not work as envisaged.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Poulter
uin	59768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information. Energy suppliers are required as part of their licence conditions to take all reasonable steps to roll out smart meters to all their domestic and non-domestic customers by the end of 2020.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/01/2017 16:58:33 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

672211

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
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 Capture and Utilisation
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 assessment his Department has made of the value for money of carbon capture and utilisation technology.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	59747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government recognises the potential of carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) technologies, even though many are still at an early stage of development. The Department has commissioned further analysis to help assess the commercially-viable technologies and the CCU carbon abatement opportunities for the UK.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/01/2017 17:57:23 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

672212

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
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: Meters
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 total cost of the smart meter programme has been to date; and if his Department will publish a detailed breakdown of those costs.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Poulter
uin	59789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2017 answer text <p>A detailed breakdown of the estimated costs of the rollout by year and type is available in the recently published cost-benefit analysis, which is available here:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-meter-roll-out-gb-cost-benefit-analysis.</p><p> </p><p>The rollout of smart meters is estimated to deliver an overall net benefit of £5.7bn between 2013 and 2030 (2011 prices, discounted to 2016).</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/01/2017 17:00:34 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

672216

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
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: Meters
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 information his Department holds on the number of SMETS 1 (a) electricity and (b) gas smart meters that have subsequently been replaced with another SMETS 1 meter because the customer changed supplier to date.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Poulter
uin	59766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2017 answer text <p>Large energy suppliers reported that a total of approximately 2,200 electricity and gas smart meters were replaced with a new smart meter when they gained a customer with a smart meter over the period from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>SMETS1 meters comply with suppliers’ roll-out obligations and do not need to be replaced. However, for commercial reasons some energy suppliers may choose to replace a gained SMETS1 meter with another SMETS1 meter so that it can be used within their system requirements.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/01/2017 14:37:52 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

672224

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
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
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 level of investment in renewable energy generation in the UK was in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	59835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) Clean Energy Investment Fact Pack shows investment in UK renewable energy generation as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p>UK Investment £bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6.7</p></td><td><p>8.8</p></td><td><p>9.8</p></td><td><p>15.6</p></td><td><p>15.6</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance (Jan 2017)</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/01/2017 10:49:49 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig