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647822

registered interest
date	29/11/2016
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: 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 recent assessment the Government has made of whether the 2020 target for smart meter development will be met (a) on time and (b) within budget.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	55315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2016 answer text <p>The smart metering rollout is making good progress, with over 4.2 million smart meters already installed as of end June 2016. The national data and communications infrastructure for smart metering (provided by the Data and Communications Company) is now live across the country, and the Government is committed to energy suppliers offering every household and small business in Great Britain a smart meter by the end of 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The latest Cost-Benefit Analysis for the smart metering programme, which can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-meter-roll-out-gb-cost-benefit-analysis" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-meter-roll-out-gb-cost-benefit-analysis</a>, estimates overall net benefits of £5.7 billion.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/12/2016 14:29:54 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

647824

registered interest
date	29/11/2016
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	GB 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 discussions he has had with Ofgem on customers of GB Energy Supply who will be given a new energy supplier due to that company ceasing trading.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Phil Boswell
uin	55328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2016 answer text <p>On 30 November Ofgem appointed Co-operative Energy to take on GB Energy Supply’s customers. Co-operative Energy is honouring the current contracts and prices of GB Energy Supply’s customers. This applies to customers on fixed deals and on standard variable tariffs. Co-operative Energy will also honour all outstanding credit balances for households who are owed money by GB Energy Supply.</p><p>The appointment of Co-operative Energy follows a competitive process run by Ofgem to get the best deal possible for customers. The Government will continue to work closely with Ofgem to ensure that consumers’ interests are being protected.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/12/2016 16:39:34 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4388 label Biography information for Philip Boswell

647830

registered interest
date	29/11/2016
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	Ports: Biofuels
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 shortfall in capacity UK ports and harbours are expected to identify in regard to managing the importation of biomass fuels in each of the next 20 years.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	55279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2016 answer text <p>We are aware that certain ports have an interest in replacing falling coal movements with biomass. However, it is for biomass supply chains and ports to determine the facilities that they require and which are available.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does not publish projections of the future use of biomass fuels. Accurate modelling of future biomass requirements requires, among other things, knowledge of future Government policies which are yet to be decided. However, in 2011 we published an analysis of the technical potential of various biomass feedstocks which could be available for use in bioenergy. This can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/48059/1464-aea-2010-uk-and-global-bioenergy-report.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/48059/1464-aea-2010-uk-and-global-bioenergy-report.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/12/2016 16:39:15 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

647831

registered interest
date	29/11/2016
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	Biofuels: 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, what plans his Department has to remove subsidies for biomass fuels to discourage their importation.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	55280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government does not subsidise biomass fuels. The Government supports a range of renewable technologies which can use biomass fuels in generating low carbon energy for electricity, heat and transport. We do not distinguish between domestic and imported biomass fuels but there are standards on sustainability and greenhouse gas savings which apply to all biomass receiving subsidy.</p><p>On 9 November 2016 the Department published a call for evidence on renewable fuelled technologies in the Contracts for Difference scheme. The response to this consultation may help inform future policy decisions, including whether the support we currently offer to these technologies through the CFD is right for delivering our objectives on value for money for decarbonisation.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/12/2016 16:38:51 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

647310

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
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	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 steps his Department is taking to identify, promote and develop innovations in (a) wind, (b) wave, (c) tidal and (d) riverflow cold renewables.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	55151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>From 2013–2015, government and its agencies (including Innovate UK and the Research Councils) invested on average over £200m per year in support for low carbon innovation. This included support for identifying, promoting, and developing innovations in the wind and marine sectors, including for the Glasgow-based Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and Supergen UK Centre for Marine Energy Research.</p><p>From 2016-2021, government has committed to increase the UK’s energy innovation spend, such that by 2021 it will have doubled to over £400m per year. This funding will support innovation across the energy sector in regions across the UK, and details will be set out in due course. Through the new Energy Innovation Board, chaired by Sir Mark Walport, the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy will be collaborating with Innovate UK, the Research Councils, and other delivery partners across government, including members of Devolved Administrations, to co-ordinate energy innovation activities.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 06/12/2016 10:57:10 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

647311

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
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	Biofuels
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 estimate the Government has made of the projected use of biomass fuels in each of the next 20 years.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	55150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government does not publish projections of the future use of biomass fuels. Accurate modelling requires knowledge of Government policies beyond this Parliament. In 2011 we published an analysis of the technical potential of various biomass feedstocks which could be available for use in bioenergy. This can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/48059/1464-aea-2010-uk-and-global-bioenergy-report.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/48059/1464-aea-2010-uk-and-global-bioenergy-report.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/12/2016 10:31:55 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

647312

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
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	Green Deal Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish a consultation on changes to the Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) Regulations 2015 required as a result of the end of the Green Deal.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	55097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p><em>The Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property)(England and Wales) Regulations 2015</em> requires that all landlords of domestic and non-domestic privately rented property in England and Wales ensure that, from 1 April 2018, their properties reach an energy performance rating of at least an E before granting a tenancy to new or existing tenants, unless a prescribed exemption applies.</p><p>Officials are considering the potential impact of the current absence of Green Deal finance from the market on the effective working of the regulations, and whether any changes may be required.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 06/12/2016 15:53:32 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

647313

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
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: Prices
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 proportion of Warm Home Discount recipients who are (a) British Gas, (b) EON, (c) nPower, (d) Scottish Power, (e) SSE and (f) Big Six customers overall are on their supplier's variable tariff.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	55108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Montgomeryshire on 1<sup>st</sup> December 2016 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-11-23/54581/" target="_blank">54581</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 06/12/2016 15:58:25 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

647314

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
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: Prices
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 proportion of Priority Service Register customers of (a) British Gas, (b) EON, (c) nPower, (d) Scottish Power, (e) SSE and (f) the Big Six energy companies on their supplier's standard variable tariff.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	55109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>Data on customers who are on the Priority Service Register (PSR) is published by Ofgem. However, due to the incompatibility of the data sets, this cannot be linked with the data held by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the type of tariffs customers are on. For this reason, we cannot calculate the proportion of PSR customers who are on standard variable tariffs.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 55107 question first answered 06/12/2016 15:57:34 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

647315

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
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	Fuel Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to paragraph 7.5 of the Fuel Poverty Strategy, on what date the first annual fuel poverty debate in Parliament was held; and when the Government plans to timetable the next such debate.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	55114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>Fuel poverty has received Parliamentary scrutiny in Westminster Hall debates held on November 24<sup>th</sup> 2015 and February 6<sup>th</sup> 2016 and in the House of Lords on October 25<sup>th</sup> 2016. Government also published a report setting out annual fuel poverty statistics on June 30<sup>th</sup> 2016.</p><p>The Department recognises the importance of Government holding an annual debate on this topic in Parliament, and will seek to schedule a debate as soon as Parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 06/12/2016 15:55:02 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead