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540107

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date	19/07/2016
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	Pneumoconiosis: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reasons his Department included in the tender document to administer the Coal Workers Pneumoconiosis Scheme 1974 a requirement that all posthumous claims to that scheme be accompanied by a grant of probate.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Sir Alan Meale
uin	43333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/08/2016 answer text <p>There was no separate tender document for the administration of the Coal Workers Pneumoconiosis Scheme. The Department’s tender did not therefore have any bearings on the requirements under the Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>Before payments can be made under the CWPS, claims handlers must ensure that the person making the claim is entitled to do so. Provision of probate is sometimes necessary in posthumous claims to ensure that the correct person receives the compensation and also to ensure that the positions of both the estate and the taxpayer are adequately and proportionately protected against fraud.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/08/2016 13:48:41 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	361 label Biography information for Sir Alan Meale

536449

registered interest
date	14/07/2016
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
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 encourage de-carbonisation of the UK energy market.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	42834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy will now hold responsibility for climate change issues.</p><p> </p><p>We are taking action across the economy to encourage the decarbonisation of energy and last month we set the fifth carbon budget in law in line with the recommendations of the independent Committee on Climate Change.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 01/08/2016 13:08:34 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

536260

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
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	Electricity Generation
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 financial cost will be to other electricity generators of the proposed supplementary balancing reserve and Black Start payments made to Fiddlers Ferry and Drax power plants.
tabling member constituency	Stone
tabling member printed	Sir William Cash
uin	42748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2016 answer text <p>Details of charges and how they are applied are available through National Grid’s website: <a href="http://www2.nationalgrid.com/bsuos/" target="_blank">http://www2.nationalgrid.com/bsuos/</a>. However National Grid does not provide a public breakdown of the costs of individual Black Start and SBR contracts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/08/2016 09:27:15 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	288 label Biography information for Sir William Cash

535223

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
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	Nuclear Power: Inspections
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 would be needed to replace EU Atomic Energy Community safeguards inspectors with International Atomic Energy Agency Inspectors to implement safeguards provisions on (a) UK nuclear installations and (b) nuclear material used and created at UK nuclear sites under treaties to which the UK is a party.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	42312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/08/2016 answer text <p>Until the UK leaves the EU, it is expected to remain a full member with all relevant rights and obligations. The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy will continue to work closely with stakeholders and the rest of Government during our negotiations to exit the EU to deliver energy which is secure, affordable and clean.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/08/2016 09:38:49 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

533363

registered interest
date	06/07/2016
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	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 steps he has taken to engage with (a) coal generators and (b) the biomass sector on whether a future biomass auction will take place.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	42089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2016 answer text <p>We plan to hold the next Contracts for Difference allocation round in due course We will announce further details about the allocation round and engage with stakeholders in good time.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 01/08/2016 09:00:34 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy