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Written Question
Energy: Housing
Thursday 8th February 2024

Asked by: Philip Dunne (Conservative - Ludlow)

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will make an estimate of the proportion of households that are (a) dual fuel, (b) connected to mains gas only and (c) connected to mains electricity only.

Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

I refer my Hon Friend to the answer I gave on 1 February to Question 11454 and 11455. These figures are published in Table 10 of the Fuel Poverty Statistics here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-statistics#2022-Statistics


Written Question
Fuel Poverty: Electricity
Thursday 8th February 2024

Asked by: Philip Dunne (Conservative - Ludlow)

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will make an estimate of the number of households (a) connected to mains electricity only and (b) in fuel poverty.

Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

I refer my Hon Friend to the answer I gave on 1 February to Question 11454 and 11455. These figures are published in Table 10 of the Fuel Poverty Statistics here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-statistics#2022-Statistics


Written Question
Energy Efficiency Taskforce: Public Expenditure
Tuesday 30th January 2024

Asked by: Philip Dunne (Conservative - Ludlow)

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will have discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential impact of the work of the energy efficiency taskforce on the 2024 Budget.

Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

The Energy Efficiency Taskforce concluded in 2023. The Department has regular conversations with the Treasury about energy efficiency.


Written Question
Energy Efficiency Taskforce
Tuesday 30th January 2024

Asked by: Philip Dunne (Conservative - Ludlow)

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she plans to publish outputs produced by the energy efficiency taskforce.

Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

The Energy Efficiency Taskforce was established to support the Government with its target to reduce total UK energy demand by 15% from 2021 levels by 2030. The Secretary of State, after careful deliberation, concluded that the draft work could be streamlined into other Government activity. No finalised document was produced.


Written Question
Energy Efficiency Taskforce
Tuesday 30th January 2024

Asked by: Philip Dunne (Conservative - Ludlow)

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what policy recommendations her Department received from the energy efficiency taskforce.

Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

The Energy Efficiency Taskforce was established to support the Government with its target to reduce total UK energy demand by 15% from 2021 levels by 2030. The Secretary of State, after careful deliberation, concluded that the draft work could be streamlined into other Government activity.


Written Question
First-tier Tribunal: Property
Thursday 25th January 2024

Asked by: Philip Dunne (Conservative - Ludlow)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases were (a) submitted to and (b) completed by the residential property division of the First-Tier Tribunal in each of the last five years.

Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

HMCTS information about the annual number of appeals received and disposed in the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber), Residential Property Division, is published at: Tribunals statistics quarterly: July to September 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).


Written Question
Rents: Appeals
Thursday 25th January 2024

Asked by: Philip Dunne (Conservative - Ludlow)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an estimate of the number of applications under the Section 13 process in the Renters Reform Bill in each of the first 3 years after its passage.

Answered by Jacob Young - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)

We are working closely with the Ministry of Justice and the First-tier Tribunal so the courts and tribunals are fully prepared for the changes introduced by the Renters (Reform) Bill on the justice system.

Justice Impact Tests are internal Government documents and are not routinely published.


Written Question
Administration of Justice: Private Rented Housing
Thursday 25th January 2024

Asked by: Philip Dunne (Conservative - Ludlow)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will publish the Justice Impact Test for the Renters Reform Bill.

Answered by Jacob Young - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)

We are working closely with the Ministry of Justice and the First-tier Tribunal so the courts and tribunals are fully prepared for the changes introduced by the Renters (Reform) Bill on the justice system.

Justice Impact Tests are internal Government documents and are not routinely published.


Written Question
Electricity: Prices
Friday 3rd February 2023

Asked by: Philip Dunne (Conservative - Ludlow)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy., what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for its policies of fluctuations in the rate of electricity market pricing per megawatt hour in the last 10 years; and what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of inflation on those rates.

Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

BEIS carries out regular monitoring of the wholesale market price to inform policy. Ofgem regularly publish data on wholesale electricity market prices.

As has widely been noted, the recent increase in electricity market prices has largely been driven by an increase in the wholesale market price for gas as a result of Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, as opposed to wider inflation.


Written Question
Renewable Energy: Finance
Friday 3rd February 2023

Asked by: Philip Dunne (Conservative - Ludlow)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to provide a budget framework for Contracts for Difference auctions over the next 5 years.

Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

BEIS has set clear overall ambitions for renewables deployment to 2030 and beyond. Contracts for Difference Budgets are determined on a round by round basis based on requirements set out in the Energy Act 2013. In 2017, HM Treasury set out the Control for Low Carbon Levies which provides a budget framework for low carbon levies including Contracts for Difference.