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date	21/07/2016
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 Supply
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 address the downgrading of the UK's rating for energy security in the World Energy Council's 2015 Energy Trilemma Index, published in November 2015.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	43964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government takes energy security very seriously, and our energy security has not been downgraded. According to the World Energy Council’s Energy Trilemma index, the UK scored an ‘A’ for the energy security element and increased its country ranking for energy security from 9th in 2014 to 4th in 2015 after there was a downgrade on a point of Energy Equity.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 05/09/2016 12:57:52 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

542319

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
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	Business: Electricity
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 electricity companies are required to provide financial compensation to business customers who are affected financially by delays in connection to the electricity network.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	43903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>Electricity network companies are required, under specified circumstances, to make a payment to business customers where agreed connection dates are missed. For distribution connections these arrangements are covered by the Guaranteed Standards of Performance.[1] For transmission connections any payment to the customer for late delivery of a connection would be set out in the customer’s bilateral connection agreement.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/698/contents/made" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/698/contents/made</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 05/09/2016 12:56:33 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

542324

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
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	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, which (a) groups and (b) individuals his Department has invited to work with the Government on developing a strategy for carbon capture and storage in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	43817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>The Department continues to engage with the carbon capture and storage (CCS) industry, including with individual developers and the CCS Association as well as others such as the Committee on Climate Change, on the next steps on CCS in the UK. The Department also continues to host the CCS Development Forum, which brings government and the CCS industry together.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, BEIS officials are providing support to Lord Oxburgh’s CCS Advisory Group which will report to Government on their findings and recommendations on the future of CCS in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 05/09/2016 13:01:19 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner