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714718

registered interest
date	28/03/2017
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	Tidal Power: Swansea Bay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will provide research funding for an assessment of the potential effect of the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon on 10 year fishing spawning cycles; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	69508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2017 answer text <p>The Department considers funding for a range of research activities and is carefully considering the recommendations contained in Charles Hendry’s recent report on tidal lagoons.</p><p>Any decisions arising from the Review, including whether to proceed with the Swansea Bay project, will need to balance the priorities of security of supply, affordability and meeting our climate change obligations.</p><p>We understand that Natural Resources Wales are currently examining the developer’s marine licence application.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/04/2017 13:21:24 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

714719

registered interest
date	28/03/2017
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	Tidal Power: Swansea Bay
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 a marine licence has been granted for the proposed development of the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	69509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2017 answer text <p>We understand that Natural Resource Wales are currently examining the developer’s marine licence application.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/04/2017 13:22:50 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

714720

registered interest
date	28/03/2017
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	Electric Vehicles
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 the Government is taking to prepare the national grid for a potential increase in the use of electric cars.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	69528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2017 answer text <p>I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Blackley and Broughton (Graham Stringer) on 16 March 2017 to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-03-08/67031/" target="_blank">67031</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 31/03/2017 12:43:04 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

714724

registered interest
date	28/03/2017
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	Tidal Power: Swansea Bay
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 (a) a lease has been granted from the Crown Estates for the development of the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon and (b) contracts for four different strike prices have been received; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	69571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>In respect of (a) the responsibility for deciding whether to grant a lease rests with the Crown Estate and not the Department. We understand that discussions are ongoing but as yet a lease has not been granted. In respect of (b) the Contract for Difference negotiations are commercially sensitive and it is not appropriate for us to comment on the proposals that have been received.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 18/04/2017 12:55:16 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

714255

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
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: Private Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 8 March 2017 to Question 66455, which options he is considering for the implementation of the private rented property energy efficiency regulations.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	69167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2017 answer text <p>The Energy Act 2011 requires that the energy efficiency private rented property regulations come into force no later than 1 April 2018. We are working hard to ensure the regulations can be implemented as planned from this date.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has recently published guidance to landlords of non-domestic property on compliance with the minimum standard requirements, and is developing an exemptions register, as required by the Energy Efficiency Regulations 2015. We will set out the detail of how the domestic regulations will be implemented through corresponding guidance for landlords of domestic private rented property. This will be published prior to the launch of the exemptions register for domestic landlords later this year.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/04/2017 09:29:23 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

713841

registered interest
date	24/03/2017
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 assessment he has made of the likelihood of every home having a smart meter by 2020; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	69051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that every home and small business in the country is offered a smart meter the end of 2020.</p><p> </p><p>Energy suppliers’ licence conditions require them to take ‘all reasonable steps’ to roll-out smart meters to all their domestic and non-domestic customers by 31 December 2020. Ofgem is responsible for regulating energy suppliers against that obligation.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 29/03/2017 14:38:19 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

713595

registered interest
date	23/03/2017
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	Gas Fired Power Stations
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 gas-fired power stations have been built since 2010; and what the generation capacity was of each of those stations.
tabling member constituency	Cannock Chase
tabling member printed	Amanda Milling
uin	68977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>The generation capacity for each combined-cycle gas-fired power plant commissioned since 2010 can be found below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Plant name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Capacity (MW)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Year of commission</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grain CHP</p></td><td><p>1365</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Langage CCGT</p></td><td><p>905</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Severn Power CCGT</p></td><td><p>850</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staythorpe CCGT</p></td><td><p>1792</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackburn CCGT</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pembroke CCGT</p></td><td><p>2269</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Burton CCGT</p></td><td><p>1332</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Carrington CCGT</p></td><td><p>880</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: DUKES 5.10 Power Stations in the United Kingdom, May 2016 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-chapter-5-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-chapter-5-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes</a> (Carrington, commissioned in autumn 2016, has also been added)</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 30/03/2017 13:45:05 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4454 label Biography information for Dame Amanda Milling

713600

registered interest
date	23/03/2017
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	Gas Fired Power Stations
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 many megawatts of power generation capacity has been provided to the National Grid from gas powered stations in the UK in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Cannock Chase
tabling member printed	Amanda Milling
uin	68960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2017 answer text <p>The generation capacity contributed to the National Grid by gas-fired power plant since 2010 can be found below.</p><p><strong>Year Transmission entry capacity (MW), gas fired plants</strong></p><p>2010 35805</p><p>2011 34101</p><p>2012 37008</p><p>2013 36511</p><p>2014 35450</p><p>2015 33075</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/540940/DUKES_5.6.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/540940/DUKES_5.6.xls</a></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 29/03/2017 09:43:17 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4454 label Biography information for Dame Amanda Milling

713608

registered interest
date	23/03/2017
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: Housing
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 new fuel poverty and home energy efficiency policies will be included in his Department's forthcoming Clean Growth Plan.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	68890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2017 answer text <p>We cannot comment on the detailed content of the plan at this stage. However, it will set out our proposals for decarbonising the UK economy through the 2020s.</p><p> </p><p>Energy efficiency is the best long term solution to tackling fuel poverty. Our manifesto set out that we will help to insulate 1 million homes this Parliament, in line with our commitment to address fuel poverty. From April 2017, a reformed supplier obligation, ECO Help to Heat, will upgrade the energy efficiency of well over 200,000 homes per year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 28/03/2017 15:07:51 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

713609

registered interest
date	23/03/2017
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, pursuant to the Answer of 8 March 2017 to Question 66594, on energy: meters, whether SMETS2s installed by one energy provider may be operated by any other existing or new provider if the consumer decides to switch provider.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	68878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2017 answer text <p>SMETS2 meters have been specifically designed to continue to operate in ‘smart’ mode when a consumer switches energy supplier. All energy suppliers will be required to use the Data and Communications Company (DCC), which enables them to operate SMETS2 meters when gaining a customer from another supplier.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 28/03/2017 15:07:14 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe