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757268

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date	05/09/2017
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	Electricity: Storage
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what definition of electricity storage they intend to use in the provision of storage licences.
tabling member printed	Baroness Featherstone
uin	HL1253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government and Ofgem’s Smart Systems and Flexibility plan, published in July, announced that Ofgem will shortly consult on a modified generation license for electricity storage facilities. This document set out that the Government and Ofgem will use the definition of storage provided by the Electricity Storage Network, which received broad support from industry, as the basis for defining storage in regulations including licences.</p><p>The Electricity Storage Network’s definition is:</p><p>• “Electricity Storage” in the electricity system is the conversion of electrical energy into a form of energy which can be stored, the storing of that energy, and the subsequent reconversion of that energy back into electrical energy.</p><p>• “Electricity Storage Facility” in the electricity system means a facility where Electricity Storage occurs.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 13/09/2017 16:17:23 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone

757269

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
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	Electricity: Storage
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to remove the double charging of consumption levies in relation to storage facilities.
tabling member printed	Baroness Featherstone
uin	HL1254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government and Ofgem’s Smart Systems and Flexibility plan, published in July, addressed the issue of storage operators paying levies intended for final consumers, on the electricity they procure from energy suppliers. Electricity supplied to generation licence holders is excluded from the supply volumes used to calculate the costs of the Renewables Obligation, Contracts for Difference and Feed in Tariffs schemes, and Capacity Market auctions. Ofgem will shortly consult on a new modified generation licence for storage facilities, which would mean that holders of this licence would not pay towards such levies.</p><p>The Government has also clarified that the electricity received and stored by electricity storage facilities may be supplied to them free from the Climate Change Levy where relevant conditions are met, as set out in HM Revenue and Custom’s Excise Notice CCL1/3 – Reliefs and special treatments for taxable commodities.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 13/09/2017 16:18:00 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone

757270

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
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	Electricity: Storage
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to develop a strategy to ensure future continuity on network charging in relation to electricity storage; and if so, how.
tabling member printed	Baroness Featherstone
uin	HL1255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>The charging regime is the responsibility of Ofgem as the independent regulator. In the joint BEIS/Ofgem Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan released on 24 July 2017 it was recognised that at present network charges can put storage at a relative disadvantage to other network users, preventing a level playing field.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is keen to see fair changes to the charging regime that create a level playing field for storage. Ofgem indicated that changes to storage charging would be best and most rapidly brought forward by industry, and two modifications have now been raised to address this issue. Ofgem also expects industry to provide guidance on the treatment of storage as intermittent or non-intermittent in the distribution charging methodologies by the end of 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 18/09/2017 11:43:24 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone

757271

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
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: Cost Effectiveness
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how they intend to ensure that energy service providers provide value for money for the consumer.
tabling member printed	Baroness Featherstone
uin	HL1256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Energy service providers could play an important role in delivering valuable services to consumers including, but not limited to, energy management, energy efficiency improvements and demand side response. The Government will continue to consider the role of energy service providers as the market for services they offer develops.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 12/09/2017 13:35:05 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone

757308

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
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	Groceries Code Adjudicator
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they plan to report on the outcome of the call for evidence into whether there should be an extension of the remit of the Groceries Code Adjudicator.
tabling member printed	Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
uin	HL1293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>We are planning to report the outcome of the Call for Evidence on extending the Groceries Code Adjudicator’s remit in the autumn.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 14/09/2017 13:24:28 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

757319

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
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	Small Businesses: Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the finding contained in the Bank of England's Money and Credit June 2017 Statistical Release that there was a £0.2 billion fall in investment in non-financial small and medium sized enterprises in the year to June; and what plans they have to increase investment in such enterprises.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL1304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>The statistical release identifies that in July 2017 new loans were made of £5.2bn compared with repayment of existing debts of £5.4bn. However in the previous month there had been a £0.4bn increase in overall lending.</p><p>These movements are best understood as part of the broader context which shows that since summer 2016, loans to non-financial small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have consistently been higher than the previous 12 months and this remains the case in the latest data. In the 12 months ending July 2017, net bank lending to SMEs actually rose by £1.2bn.</p><p>We are working hard to give UK SMEs the support they need to start and grow. Growth Hubs provide information and guidance across the country and British Business Bank programmes are supporting £3.4 billion of finance to more than 59,000 smaller businesses.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 13/09/2017 12:25:44 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

757351

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
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	Construction: Billing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the report they commissioned from Pye Tait Consulting on cash retentions in the construction industry has been submitted by that firm; and if so, when they intend to publish that report, and what action they plan to take in the light of its recommendations.
tabling member printed	Lord Stunell
uin	HL1336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Department will be publishing the Pye Tait report, alongside a consultation document on the practice of cash retentions under construction contracts shortly.</p><p>The Government will not pre-empt the outcome of the consultation, but will consider the responses to the forthcoming consultation carefully before making decisions about further action in this area.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 12/09/2017 14:38:57 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	445 label Biography information for Lord Stunell

757514

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
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	Carbon Emissions: 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 the Government's Clean Growth Plan will include measures to reduce carbon emissions from homes.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	8648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>We are currently working on our ambitious and robust Clean Growth Strategy, which will include proposals for reducing carbon emissions for a wide-range of sectors, including homes. It will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 11/09/2017 16:43:09 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

757515

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
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	Courier Services: Regulation
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 takes to regulate and monitor courier companies in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	8468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Ofcom is the independent regulator with responsibility for postal services, including courier companies.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 12/09/2017 15:00:46 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

757516

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
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	Directors: Females
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 progress has been made on increasing the representation of women on company boards.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	8534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>Since 2011, the number of women on FTSE 350 boards has more than doubled from 289 (9.5% of positions) to 744 (24.4%). There are now only 7 all-male boards, down from 152 in 2011.</p><p> </p><p>We are going further and are supporting the work of the business-led Hampton-Alexander Review and its target of 33% women on FTSE 350 boards by 2020.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 11/09/2017 12:48:58 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord