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623470

registered interest
date	28/10/2016
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	Fracking
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 the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on the potential effect of the Government's fracking strategy on local communities.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	50945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>Both the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy are clear that local communities will have the opportunity to take part in and comment on matters that impact on their local area. Any shale planning application – whether decided by Local Authorities or Government – will continue to require a full consultation with local people.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/11/2016 11:08:11 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

623472

registered interest
date	28/10/2016
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: Imports
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 ensure energy imported from the EU is not subject to tariffs after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	50888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>The current EU applied tariff rate on imports of crude oil, natural gas and coal is zero.</p><p>The decision on whether energy imported into the UK should be subject to tariffs once the UK has left the EU will be for the UK only to make. For reasons of economic competitiveness and energy security and consistent with our support for an open trade policy regime, it is unlikely that the Government would wish to impose tariffs on energy imports.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/11/2016 14:33:43 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

622502

registered interest
date	27/10/2016
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	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, what assessment he has made of the value for money case for Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon; and whether that assessment has been shared with the Hendy Review team.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Roger Mullin
uin	50847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s assessment as to whether the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon can be considered to be value for money is currently underway. No assessment has been provided to the Hendry Review team.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/11/2016 11:40:40 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4468 label Biography information for Roger Mullin

622050

registered interest
date	26/10/2016
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	Coal Authority
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 times government ministers have met the Coal Authority in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Tynemouth
tabling member printed	Mr Alan Campbell
uin	50553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>The Coal Authority has met with Government Ministers four times in the last two years.</p><p>The Minister of State for Energy met the Coal Authority on three occasions between October 2014 and October 2016:</p><ul><li>6 January 2015</li><li>16 December 2015</li><li>25 October 2016</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Coal Authority also met the then Under-Secretary of State Environment and Rural Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Penrith and The Border (Rory Stewart) on 20 November 2015.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/11/2016 14:35:12 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	529 label Biography information for Sir Alan Campbell

622051

registered interest
date	26/10/2016
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	Home Loss Payments
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 times the Secretary of State has exercised his powers to make payments above £15,000 under the House Loss Payments Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Tynemouth
tabling member printed	Mr Alan Campbell
uin	50554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has not exercised his powers to make payments above £15,000 under the House Loss Payments Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/11/2016 12:15:06 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	529 label Biography information for Sir Alan Campbell

622052

registered interest
date	26/10/2016
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	Coal Authority: Legal Opinion
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 the Coal Authority has spent on external legal advice in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Tynemouth
tabling member printed	Mr Alan Campbell
uin	50556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>The Coal Authority’s external legal spend over the last five years is broken-down as follows:</p><p>Oct 2011 - Sep 2012 448,512.24</p><p>Oct 2012 - Sep 2013 615,208.40</p><p>Oct 2013 - Sep 2014 418,516.90</p><p>Oct 2014 - Sep 2015 371,561.44</p><p>Oct 2015 - Sep 2016 771,867.78</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/11/2016 12:15:50 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	529 label Biography information for Sir Alan Campbell

622053

registered interest
date	26/10/2016
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	Coal Authority: Staff
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 people have been employed in the Coal Authority in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Tynemouth
tabling member printed	Mr Alan Campbell
uin	50555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>Total Coal Authority average headcount for the last five years is broken-down as follows:</p><p>2016 183</p><p>2015 168</p><p>2014 143</p><p>2013 136</p><p>2012 139</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/11/2016 12:14:19 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	529 label Biography information for Sir Alan Campbell

622141

registered interest
date	26/10/2016
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 Company Obligation
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 his Answer of 25 October 2016 to Question 49170, how many checks Ofgem has carried out to ensure that Energy Company Obligation scheme requirements have been met in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	50441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>Ofgem check all of the information required to be provided by obligated energy companies for compliance against the legislation. This is supported by annual and risk-based audits.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem also require the obligated energy companies to arrange for independent inspections to be conducted on at least 5% of installed measures, per energy company, to verify they have been installed in accordance with the relevant standards and that savings have been correctly calculated. From 1 April 2015 to date, 77,647 inspections have been conducted (41,172 of installation standards and 36,475 of savings) with a pass rate of 93.83%. Quarterly breakdowns of the number of inspections and outcomes are available in Ofgem’s published reports.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-programmes/eco/contacts-guidance-and-resources/eco-public-reports-and-data" target="_blank">www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-programmes/eco/contacts-guidance-and-resources/eco-public-reports-and-data</a></p><p> </p><p>Ofgem expects measures that failed this monitoring to be remediated and requires this to be reported to them by energy companies following a reinspection.</p><p> </p><p>Depending on the failure rate, Ofgem can require additional monitoring and assurances from companies that issues will not be replicated.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/11/2016 14:14:43 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

620846

registered interest
date	25/10/2016
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	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, when he plans to announce a decision on the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	50103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>We will consider the findings of the independent review of tidal lagoons, which is due to report by the end of 2016, before deciding how to proceed.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/11/2016 12:31:28 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

621050

registered interest
date	25/10/2016
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 Company Obligation
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 his Department has had with the scheme administrator of the levy-funded Energy Company Obligation on monitoring requirements for households to make capital contributions towards the cost of any energy efficiency work from April (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	50250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published the ‘ECO: Help to Heat’ consultation’ [1] on 29 June 2016, which requested views on whether and how the Department should collect additional data on costs of the scheme from April 2017, including contributions from consumers. As part of that exercise, Departmental officials have discussed options with Ofgem E-serve, including the option set out in the consultation of conducting a sample survey. BEIS will include a summary of responses to the consultation when it publishes its formal response.</p><p><em>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/energy-company-obligation-eco-help-to-heat" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/energy-company-obligation-eco-help-to-heat</a></em></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/11/2016 11:29:23 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas