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1361702

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
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	Natural Gas: 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 steps he is taking to help protect those consumers who are off the gas grid from increases in energy prices.
tabling member constituency	Forest of Dean
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Harper
uin	59739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>Customers who are off the gas grid will be protected by the energy price cap if they are on a default tariff with their electricity supplier.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes it is essential that consumers who are off the gas grid get a fair deal.  There are open markets for the supply of heating oil and LPG in the UK as we believe this provides the best long-term guarantee of competitive prices. These markets are subject to UK competition law to ensure they operate efficiently for the consumer.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 25/10/2021 16:49:18 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper

1361703

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
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	Natural Gas: 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 discussions he has had with representatives of (a) Ofgem, (b) the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (GEMA) and (c) Competition and Markets Authority to help ensure protections for consumers off the gas grid from increases in gas prices.
tabling member constituency	Forest of Dean
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Harper
uin	59740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2021 answer text <p>Ministers and officials have been in close and regular discussions with Ofgem on gas prices, and Ofgem are keeping their board, GEMA, informed. BEIS and Ofgem officials also maintain regular contact with the CMA on energy markets.</p><p> </p><p>If residents are off the gas grid, but on a default tariff for their electricity only supply, they will still be protected by the Energy Price Cap. The Energy Price Cap saves 15 million households on default tariffs up to £100 a year on average. The level of the price cap is set by Ofgem, the independent regulator.</p><p> </p><p>Providing they are eligible households will also be able to access Warm Home Discount which provides £140 off energy bills over winter. Other energy bill support is available to qualifying households through the Winter Fuel Payment and Cold Weather Payment.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that some people continue to require extra support, which is why we have introduced a £421 million Household Support Fund to help vulnerable people in England with essential household costs over the winter as the economy recovers.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 27/10/2021 16:19:09 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 27361 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper

1361725

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
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	Recovery Loan 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, how many recovery loans have been agreed between companies and their lenders supported by Government guarantees since the launch of the Recovery Loan Scheme; and how much has been lent under that scheme to date.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	59923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>The British Business Bank intends to publish data on usage of the scheme in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 25/10/2021 16:48:08 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1361741

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
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	Housing: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, in the context of labour shortages in local authorities for housing maintenance, repairs and retrofit work, what steps he plans to take build capacity to deliver his Net Zero strategy for homes, including the installation of home insulation and heat pumps.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	59849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2021 answer text <p>The Net Zero and Heat and Buildings Strategies set out our plans to work with industry to develop the workforce and create the green jobs needed to decarbonise the economy.</p><p> </p><p>This includes £6.9 million for the Skills Training Competition, designed to get tradespeople professionally trained to deliver the Government’s current and future home decarbonisation schemes.</p><p> </p><p>For heat pumps specifically, the Government is working closely with industry and the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education to ensure that appropriate high-quality training is available both to retrain existing heating installers and to attract new entrants.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/10/2021 14:25:29 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1361742

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
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	Housing: Carbon Emissions
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 Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on ensuring that new homes are built to the passive housing standard or to be Net Zero.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	59850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2021 answer text <p>Ministers and officials at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy are in regular contact with their counterparts at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, to ensure the smooth delivery of the Future Homes Standard (FHS).</p><p> </p><p>When it is implemented in 2025, the FHS will ensure that new homes produce at least 75% lower CO2 emissions compared to those built to current standards, and require no further retrofit to become fully zero-carbon as the electricity grid continues to decarbonise.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/10/2021 14:30:06 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1361779

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
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	Private Rented Housing: Carbon Emissions
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 help ensure the retro-fitting of private rented housing to meet net zero carbon targets.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
tabling member printed	Kim Johnson
uin	59993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2021 answer text <p>Since April 2020, all privately rented homes in England and Wales are required to meet a minimum energy efficiency standard of EPC band E, unless a valid exemption applies. BEIS has consulted on raising the minimum energy efficiency standards for privately rented homes in England and Wales to EPC band C. Under the Government’s lead proposed option, landlords would be required to spend up to £10,000 to reach EPC Band C for new tenancies from 1 April 2025 and all tenancies by 1 April 2028.</p><p> </p><p>In the Net Zero Strategy, the Government committed to consider an ultimate backstop date to ensure that all homes meet a net zero minimum energy performance standard before 2050, where cost effective, practical, and affordable.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/10/2021 13:59:36 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4824 label Biography information for Kim Johnson

1361798

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
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	Offshore Industry: Carbon Emissions
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 his Department has made of the impact of the Government’s new oil and gas developments on the Government's goal to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	59891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2021 answer text <p>All scenarios proposed by the Climate Change Committee setting out how the Government could meet its 2050 net zero emissions target include continuing demand for oil and natural gas.</p><p> </p><p>Even with continued new development, the UK is expected to consume more oil and gas than it produces in the coming decades. This is because production from the UK Continental Shelf is declining rapidly as the basin matures. Existing licensed but undeveloped oil and gas assets are already factored into the Government’s projections for future production, as well as associated emissions.</p><p> </p><p>The Oil and Gas Authority’s (OGA’s) new strategy, which came into force in February 2021, integrates net zero considerations into the development consent process. This strategy provided the OGA with tools they can use to help ensure that new developments are designed and operated as cleanly as possible, in line with the Government’s net zero obligation.</p><p> </p><p>Looking forward, the Government will introduce a climate compatibility checkpoint which will be used to assess whether any future licensing rounds remain in keeping with the Government’s climate goals.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/10/2021 14:15:21 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1361800

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
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	Housing: Insulation
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 plans to take to ensure British homes are insulated in response to recent rises in energy prices.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	59893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2021 answer text <p>The Government’s Heat and Buildings Strategy sets out the actions we will be taking to reduce emissions from buildings in the near term, including £3.9 billion of new funding.</p><p> </p><p>Part of this new funding has been allocated to the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund which will upgrade a significant amount of the social housing stock currently below EPC C up to that standard. This will include improvements to insulation.</p><p> </p><p>This funding will also support the Home Upgrade Grant which will provide grants to up to 100,000 low-income households to upgrade the energy performance of the worst quality, off gas grid homes in England. This will typically include insulation measures to make the home heat efficient and suitable for the future as we build towards net zero.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, The Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme which commenced in 2013, which is an obligation that the Government has placed on larger energy suppliers to install energy efficiency and heating measures to low income and vulnerable households across GB and has delivered around 3.29m measures in 2.31m homes, up to the end of July 2021.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/10/2021 14:13:47 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1361802

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
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	Hydrogen: Carbon Emissions
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 impact of the production of hydrogen on CO2 levels.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	59895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2021 answer text <p>The Government's Net Zero Strategy sets out how low carbon hydrogen will be an essential part of our future energy mix. We are currently consulting on a new UK standard for low carbon hydrogen, which will ensure any hydrogen production we support provides genuine carbon savings. As part of this we have published a comprehensive assessment on the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of different production methods.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Hydrogen Strategy indicates that use of 5 GW low carbon hydrogen could deliver total emissions savings of 41 MtCO2e between 2023 and 2032, the equivalent of the carbon captured by 700 million trees over the same period.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/10/2021 14:12:06 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1361803

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
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	Heat Pumps: Low Incomes
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 potential merits of providing low-income households with subsidised heat pumps in order to (a) protect poorer households in the run up to winter and (b) kickstart the low-carbon heating market.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	59896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2021 answer text <p>The Government has published its comprehensive Heat and Buildings Strategy, with major new plans to lower the cost of low-carbon heating technology, like heat pumps, to ensure they are no more expensive to buy and run than fossil-fuel boilers. The strategy aims to promote growth and levelling up through supporting 175,000 green skilled jobs by 2030 and 240,000 by 2035.</p><p> </p><p>New grants of £5,000 will be available from April next year to encourage homeowners to install more efficient, low-carbon heating systems – like heat pumps – through a £450 million three-year Boiler Upgrade Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund, Home Upgrade Grant, Energy Company Obligation and Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery schemes all support the installation of heat pumps for social housing tenants and lower-income homeowners and private tenants. These schemes also support other energy-efficiency measures such as insulation and heating controls to ensure homes are easier to heat and waste less energy.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/10/2021 14:09:49 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes