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155836

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date	17/11/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Disconnections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of domestic customers disconnected by their energy supplier in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	214693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>Ofgem monitors and publishes information about disconnections of domestic electricity and gas supplies in its Domestic Supplies’ Obligations Annual Reports:</p><p><a href="http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/Sustainability/SocAction/Monitoring/SoObMonitor/Pages/SocObMonitor.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/Sustainability/SocAction/Monitoring/SoObMonitor/Pages/SocObMonitor.aspx</a>.</p><p>Up the end of Q2 of 2013, 234 domestic electricity and 38 gas customer supplies were disconnected due to debt in 2013. Data for the remainder of the year and 2014 is not available.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 24/11/2014 16:40:23 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

155838

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Ofgem
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 6 November 2014, Official Report, column 955, on off-grid gas customers, if he will make it his policy to include the off-grid gas market under the remit of Ofgem.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	214550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>The remit of Ofgem is to regulate the monopoly companies that run the electricity and gas networks. There is no natural or structural monopoly for supply and distribution in off-gas grid fuels; on the contrary, it is a competitive supply market.</p><p>The Federation of Petroleum Suppliers’ Code of Practice is a binding code for their members engaged in domestic heating oil supply. Their Customer Charter also provides advice on the level of services members are expected to provide to their customers, the process for making complaints about a supplier, and advice for those with payment difficulties. The UK Liquid Petroleum Gas trade body has produced a “Vulnerable Persons Protocol” for LPG suppliers which sets out the protection embodied in contracted supply arrangements, arrangements for vulnerable customers, for customers in payment difficulties, and delivery priorities. These two sectors provide the overwhelming majority of off-grid fuel, and these trade bodies cover over 80% of the domestic heating oil used in mainland UK and 99% of bulk LPG supply.</p><p>Customers of heat networks are also technically ‘off gas grid’ (representing 2% of heat demand in buildings) and they are also benefiting from development of industry-led customer protection schemes and the introduction of heat metering and billing regulations.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 25/11/2014 14:39:54 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

155839

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Green Deal Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households in each council tax band have had (a) new, (b) pending and (c) live Green Deal plans.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	214560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department reports the number of (a) new, (b) pending and (c) live Green Deal Plans in unique properties, in Table 3 of the monthly official statistics publication:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/green-deal-and-energy-company-obligation-eco-statistics#monthly-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/green-deal-and-energy-company-obligation-eco-statistics#monthly-statistics</a></p><p>A breakdown of Green Deal Plans in each council tax band is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 24/11/2014 15:43:29 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

155840

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Annual Energy Statement of 6 November 2014, Official Report, column 982, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of Ofgem's retail market reforms on the (a) comprehensibility of energy bills and (b) levels of competition in the energy market.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	214557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>In July, Ofgem published its framework for evaluating the retail market reforms and will be reporting annually on the progress of competition in the retail markets, including the impact of the retail market reforms. A full review of the package of reforms is planned for 2017.</p><p>The Competition and Markets Authority will be assessing levels of competition in the retail energy markets as part of their Market Investigation into the energy markets.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 25/11/2014 14:43:19 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

155841

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 6 November 2014, Official Report, column 953, on energy bills, what the evidential basis was for the statement that the large energy companies are on track to have switching times by the end of 2014.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	214548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>The modifications to underpinning industry processes that were necessary to enable a halving of switching times have taken place and Energy UK members have agreed that they will all offer faster switching by the end of the year.</p><p>The Department continues to work with suppliers and their representatives to ensure that they meet this commitment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 25/11/2014 14:41:43 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

155842

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Annual Energy Statement of 6 November 2014, Official Report, column 984, what the evidential basis was for the statement that the UK is on target to meet its future low-carbon power requirements.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	214558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2014 answer text <p>The estimated £45bn investment achieved in the electricity sector between 2010 and 2013 demonstrates good progress towards the further investment that we estimate is necessary between 2014 and 2020 (up to £100bn).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 21/11/2014 14:35:50 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

155843

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy Company Obligation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 6 November 2014, Official Report, column 955, on off-grid gas customers, what estimate his Department has made of the number of affordable warmth measures under the Energy Company Obligation which have been delivered in off-grid gas areas.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	214549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>We do not collect information on the total number of households in ‘off gas grid areas’ that have benefited from Affordable Warmth measures. The percentage of households that benefited from Affordable Warmth measures whose primary fuel type was not mains gas up to 30 June 2014 was 1.1%. However, this is not an indicator of whether households were in an ‘off gas grid area’.</p><p>The monthly Green Deal/Energy Company Obligation (ECO) statistical release published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change presents the number of measures installed under the rural sub-obligation of the Carbon Saving Communities Obligation (CSCO) strand of ECO which will include areas that are off-grid. The latest release was published on 20 November:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/green-deal-and-energy-company-obligation-eco-monthly-statistics-november-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/green-deal-and-energy-company-obligation-eco-monthly-statistics-november-2014</a></p><p>This shows that suppliers have installed 23,400 measures which Ofgem estimates will satisfy over half of their targets under the simplified scheme, up from 2% (834 measures) just five months earlier.</p><p>As part of the new ECO Order for the period up until 2017, which is currently proceeding through Parliament, we have created incentives for energy suppliers to delivery more ECO measures in non-gas fuelled homes. We estimate this could increase delivery to non-gas households to as much as 30% by 2017.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 26/11/2014 14:48:41 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd attachment 1 file name Monthly_Statistical_Release_-_Green_Deal_and_ECO_in_GB_20_Nov_FINAL.pdf title Green Deal & ECO Stats November 2014
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

155844

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Electricity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Annual Energy Statement of 6 November 2014, Official Report, column 984, what the evidential basis was for the statement that total electricity investment was high between 2000 and 2010.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	214559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>No such statement was made by my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State in the Annual Energy Statement of 6 November 2014, <em>Official Report, Column 984</em>.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 24/11/2014 16:42:50 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

155845

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Fuel Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 6 November 2014, Official Report, column 959, on energy bills, what the evidential basis was for the statement that fuel poverty increased massively between 1997 and 2010.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	214552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2014 answer text <p>The Official Report of 6 November 2014, (<em>Official Report, Column 959</em>) records my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State as saying that “fuel poverty increased massively under the previous Government.”</p><p>As shown by National Statistics, fuel poverty, measured using the 10% indicator in use under the previous Government, affected 3.5 million households in England in 2010. This was lower than the peak of 4 million households affected in 2009, but still more than twice as many households as had been affected in 2005</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 20/11/2014 16:30:34 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

155846

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Fuel Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 6 November 2014, Official Report, column 959, on energy bills, what the evidential basis was for the statement that fuel poverty is falling.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	214553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2014 answer text <p>The latest National Statistics on fuel poverty, published in June 2014, are for 2012. They show that between 2010 and 2012, fuel poverty fell by nearly 8%. The report is available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-statistics</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 20/11/2014 16:31:10 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd attachment 1 file name Annual fuel poverty Statistics 2014.pdf title Annual fuel poverty statistics 2014
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint