Written questions
553 written questions tabled, most recent first.
22 Mar 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Renewable Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what her policy is on making hybrid-storage-renewables systems eligible for future Contract for Difference rounds.
22 Mar 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Smart Energy GB
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans she has to ensure that Smart Energy GB takes steps to reduce instances of engineers having to make more than one visit to an address because a customer was not at home.
22 Mar 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps her Department plan to take in response to the key themes set out in the discussion paper published by Ofgem in September 2015.
21 Mar 2016 · Department of Health
Ophthalmic Services: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many outpatient (a) ophthalmology, (b) medical ophthalmology, (c) optometry and (d) orthoptic appointments for children under 19 years of age took place in 2014-15.
21 Mar 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Energy: Storage
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential effect of replacing final consumption levies on energy storage devices with a net charging levy to ensure that energy storage devic
21 Mar 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Energy: Storage
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether her Department plans to develop standard technical guidance and best practice guidelines for the energy storage market to ensure the safety and consistency of installations.
11 Mar 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Carbon Capture and Storage
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2016 to Question 23417, whether she plans to issue a direction to hold a Contracts for Difference round for carbon capture and storage.
11 Mar 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the smart meter roll out public awareness campaign led by Smart Energy GB.
11 Mar 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of making all smart meter derogations subject to randomised control trials.
11 Mar 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps she plans to take to ensure that suppliers that are awarded smart meter derogations relating to in-home displays provide alternatives to such devices that are appropriate for all ener
11 Mar 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what her Department's project management arrangements are for the smart meter rollout.
11 Mar 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Energy: Meters
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what her Department's governance arrangements are for the smart meter rollout.
10 Mar 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Disability Living Allowance: Heart Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to update the document, Medical guidance for DLA decision makers (child cases): staff guide, last updated on 8 December 2015, to incorporate references to congenital, inherited or acqu
1 Mar 2016 · Department of Health
Junior Doctors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to bring forward proposals to add junior doctors to the definition of worker in section 43K(1) of the Employment Rights Act 1996.
1 Mar 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Energy: Billing
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 10 September 2015 to Question 8556, what progress Energy UK has made in developing the webtool www.comparemyenergy.org.uk.
1 Mar 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Small Businesses: Productivity
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to provide advice and support to small and medium-sized enterprises to boost their productivity before the introduction of the national living wage.
29 Feb 2016 · Department of Health
Food: Labelling
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to improve consumer awareness of the presence of high-fructose corn syrup in food with better labelling.
25 Feb 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Electricity Generation
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of existing capacity of existing Capacity Market Units that were awarded Capacity Market contracts did not place an exit bid in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.
25 Feb 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Electricity Generation
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what capacity of existing Capacity Market Units were awarded Capacity Market contracts in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.
24 Feb 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Tenants' Associations
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent consideration he has given to amending existing non-statutory guidelines on Residential Leasehold and Recognised Tenants' Associations to ensure that those who reside in large
23 Feb 2016 · Department for Transport
Railways: Franchises
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that UK rail operators who may lose their franchise as a result of the recently announced proposals to transfer the responsibility for inner suburban rail services
23 Feb 2016 · Department of Health
Lyme Disease
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that (a) more cases of chronic lyme disease are correctly diagnosed and (b) more people with chronic lyme disease receive the appropriate treatment.
23 Feb 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Electricity Generation: Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when she will publish the findings of the Frontier Economics analysis commissioned by her Department in 2014 with the aim of further systematising her Department's understanding of the whole sys
23 Feb 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Renewable Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what evidential basis was used when calculating the latest forecasts for the Levy Control Framework.
23 Feb 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Renewable Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will publish an updated set of Levy Control Framework projections.
23 Feb 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Heating
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether energy suppliers are obligated to report to the National Measurement and Regulation Office when a heat network is established or a lease is acquired.
23 Feb 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Heating
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will instruct the National Measurement and Regulation Office to publish a list of all known heat networks in the UK.
11 Feb 2016 · Department for Energy and Climate Change
Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme: Solar Power
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans she has to support solar thermal systems in the domestic and non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive.
11 Feb 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Newspaper Press: Competition
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent assessment he has made of the extent of anti-competitive practices in the newspaper wholesale market.
10 Feb 2016 · Home Office
Vetting: Greenwich and Woolwich
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications to the Disclosure and Barring Service from people living in Greenwich and Woolwich constituency have taken more than 60 days to process in the last 12 months.
Source: official written-questions record.