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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps her Department has taken to compensate people who have been detrimentally affected by the Green Deal Scheme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps her Department has taken to compensate people who have been detrimentally affected by the Green Deal Scheme.
There is a specific process for handling complaints under the Green Deal. This starts with a complaint by the consumer to their Green Deal Provider. If not resolved satisfactorily, the consumer may then approach the Green Deal Ombudsman or the Financial Ombudsman Service, depending on the nature of the complaint. Their decisions will be binding on the Green Deal Provider. If after progressing through those channels the consumer is still not satisfied, they may request that their complaint be referred to the Secretary of State for consideration.
In respect of such referrals, the Secretary of State may reduce or cancel a Green Deal loan, if she is satisfied that there has been a breach of the law or code of practice.
The cancellation or reduction of a loan represents the full extent of the Secretary of State’s power to provide redress for consumers in relation to the Green Deal.
BEIS aims to ensure that cases are concluded as quickly as possible, whilst ensuring that fair redress is provided where appropriate and decisions take account of all available, relevant evidence.
BEIS currently has a number of outstanding appeal cases and we have taken steps to speed-up the handling process. We are making progress and this has resulted in the recent issuing of 4 final sanctions and 16 Intention Notices. We expect these numbers to increase significantly soon.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what her Department's timescale is for processing appeals from people who claim to have been adversely affected by the Green Deal Scheme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what her Department's timescale is for processing appeals from people who claim to have been adversely affected by the Green Deal Scheme.
There is a specific process for handling complaints under the Green Deal. This starts with a complaint by the consumer to their Green Deal Provider. If not resolved satisfactorily, the consumer may then approach the Green Deal Ombudsman or the Financial Ombudsman Service, depending on the nature of the complaint. Their decisions will be binding on the Green Deal Provider. If after progressing through those channels the consumer is still not satisfied, they may request that their complaint be referred to the Secretary of State for consideration.
In respect of such referrals, the Secretary of State may reduce or cancel a Green Deal loan, if she is satisfied that there has been a breach of the law or code of practice.
The cancellation or reduction of a loan represents the full extent of the Secretary of State’s power to provide redress for consumers in relation to the Green Deal.
BEIS aims to ensure that cases are concluded as quickly as possible, whilst ensuring that fair redress is provided where appropriate and decisions take account of all available, relevant evidence.
BEIS currently has a number of outstanding appeal cases and we have taken steps to speed-up the handling process. We are making progress and this has resulted in the recent issuing of 4 final sanctions and 16 Intention Notices. We expect these numbers to increase significantly soon.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many appeals her Department has received under the Green Deal Scheme in the last 12 months, and in which constituencies the appellants are based.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many appeals her Department has received under the Green Deal Scheme in the last 12 months, and in which constituencies the appellants are based.
230 appeals have been received in the last 12 months. The following table shows the constituencies in which the appellants are based.
Parliamentary constituency | Number of appeals |
England |
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Barrow and Furness | 1 |
Batley and Spen | 2 |
Berwick-upon-Tweed | 1 |
Birmingham, Erdington | 1 |
Birmingham, Hodge Hill | 1 |
Birmingham, Ladywood | 1 |
Birmingham, Perry Barr | 1 |
Bishop Auckland | 1 |
Blackley and Broughton | 1 |
Blackpool South | 2 |
Blaydon | 2 |
Blyth Valley | 1 |
Bolton North East | 1 |
Bolton South East | 1 |
Bradford East | 1 |
Bristol East | 1 |
Bury North | 1 |
Bury South | 1 |
Carlisle | 1 |
City of Durham | 2 |
Cleethorpes | 1 |
Colne Valley | 1 |
Copeland | 1 |
Daventry | 1 |
Ealing Central and Acton | 1 |
Easington | 1 |
Fylde | 1 |
Gloucester | 1 |
Grantham and Stamford | 1 |
Great Grimsby | 1 |
Halton | 1 |
Hartlepool | 2 |
Houghton and Sunderland South | 2 |
Huddersfield | 1 |
Huntingdon | 1 |
Ipswich | 1 |
Jarrow | 1 |
Kingston upon Hull East | 1 |
Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | 1 |
Kingswood | 1 |
Knowsley | 1 |
Lancaster and Fleetwood | 1 |
Leeds East | 1 |
Leicester South | 1 |
Leigh | 1 |
Liverpool, Walton | 1 |
Liverpool, Wavertree | 2 |
Liverpool, West Derby | 2 |
Manchester, Withington | 1 |
Middlesbrough | 2 |
Milton Keynes South | 1 |
Newcastle upon Tyne Central | 1 |
Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford | 1 |
North Durham | 1 |
North Somerset | 1 |
North Swindon | 1 |
North Tyneside | 1 |
North West Cambridgeshire | 1 |
North West Durham | 1 |
Nottingham East | 3 |
Nottingham North | 1 |
Nottingham South | 1 |
Pendle | 1 |
Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport | 1 |
Preston | 1 |
Rossendale and Darwen | 1 |
Rushcliffe | 1 |
Sedgefield | 1 |
Sheffield Central | 1 |
Sheffield South East | 1 |
Sherwood | 1 |
Southport | 1 |
Stalybridge and Hyde | 1 |
Stockton South | 2 |
Stockton North | 1 |
Tewkesbury | 1 |
Tynemouth | 1 |
Walsall South | 1 |
Washington and Sunderland West | 3 |
Wentworth and Dearne | 1 |
West Lancashire | 1 |
West Suffolk | 1 |
Winchester | 1 |
Workington | 3 |
Wales |
|
Aberavon | 1 |
Cardiff South and Penarth | 1 |
Cynon Valley | 1 |
Llanelli | 1 |
Newport West | 1 |
Rhondda | 2 |
Swansea East | 1 |
Scotland |
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Airdrie and Shotts | 4 |
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | 5 |
Central Ayrshire | 5 |
Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | 3 |
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | 4 |
East Dunbartonshire | 1 |
East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | 5 |
East Lothian | 1 |
East Renfrewshire | 3 |
Edinburgh North and Leith | 1 |
Edinburgh South | 1 |
Edinburgh West | 1 |
Falkirk | 4 |
Glasgow East | 1 |
Glasgow North | 1 |
Glasgow North East | 8 |
Glasgow North West | 4 |
Glasgow South West | 1 |
Glenrothes | 1 |
Inverclyde | 3 |
Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 13 |
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | 2 |
Lanark and Hamilton East | 2 |
Linlithgow and East Falkirk | 1 |
Livingston | 1 |
Midlothian | 1 |
Motherwell and Wishaw | 3 |
North Ayrshire and Arran | 2 |
Ochil and South Perthshire | 1 |
Paisley and Renfrewshire North | 11 |
Paisley and Renfrewshire South | 4 |
Perth and North Perthshire | 1 |
Rutherglen and Hamilton West | 7 |
Stirling | 3 |
West Dunbartonshire | 5 |
Constituency not yet identified |
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If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 24 July.
If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 24 July.
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
This week, the Department has released a consultation on the future of clinicians’ pensions, a new five-year deal to support our approach to community pharmacy, the Government’s prevention Green Paper and a £20 million collaboration with the Prince’s Trust for the NHS widening participation initiative, which will allow and support more apprentices into the NHS. There has been a lot done just this week, and there is a lot more still to do.
What steps he is taking to increase the proportion of UK-manufactured content in renewable and low-carbon technologies.
What steps he is taking to increase the proportion of UK-manufactured content in renewable and low-carbon technologies.
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to review the trade relationship with Saudi Arabia as a result of the detention of political detainees and female activists in that country.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to review the trade relationship with Saudi Arabia as a result of the detention of political detainees and female activists in that country.
The UK and Saudi Arabia have a longstanding bilateral relationship based on a number of pillars including defence; security; trade and investment; shared concerns about regional issues and energy security.
We are concerned by the detention of political detainees in Saudi Arabia. We raise concerns regularly and freely, using a range of Ministerial and diplomatic channels, including our Ambassador and Embassy team in Riyadh.
No aspect of our commercial relationship with Saudi Arabia prevents us from speaking frankly and openly about human rights. We will not pursue trade to the exclusion of human rights. They can and should be complementary.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Justice on the provision of capacity building programmes for the domestic legal system in Saudi Arabia.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Justice on the provision of capacity building programmes for the domestic legal system in Saudi Arabia.
The former Secretary of State for Justice, Chris Grayling MP, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Saudi Ministry of Justice in 2015. A number of engagements, including a working-level visit, have taken place since that time. All overseas judicial assistance is subject to rigorous assessment based on the merits of the activity and weighing any potential risks, including human rights concerns.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assurances he has received from his Saudi Arabian counterpart on the health and well-being of political detainees in that country.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assurances he has received from his Saudi Arabian counterpart on the health and well-being of political detainees in that country.
We are concerned about the health and well-being of political detainees in Saudi Arabia. We raise our concerns regularly and freely, using a range of Ministerial and diplomatic channels, including our Ambassador and Embassy team in Riyadh.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made representations to his Saudi Arabian counterpart on the publication of proof of life evidence on political detainees being in custody in that country.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made representations to his Saudi Arabian counterpart on the publication of proof of life evidence on political detainees being in custody in that country.
The British Government is very concerned about allegations of mistreatment of those detained in Saudi Arabia because of their political views. While we have not requested this information from the Saudi authorities, we continue to monitor these cases.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that people over 75 who cannot afford to pay for a TV licence will be able to access democracy and keep informed of current affairs from June 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that people over 75 who cannot afford to pay for a TV licence will be able to access democracy and keep informed of current affairs from June 2020.
The future of the over 75 licence fee concession is the responsibility of the BBC. In the 2015 funding settlement, the Government and the BBC agreed that responsibility for the concession would transfer to the BBC in June 2020.
However, the Government is disappointed with the BBC’s decision as it has been clear that it wants and expects the BBC to continue this concession. Since the BBC took its decision, I have met with the Chairman of the BBC Board and the Director-General of the BBC and I have asked them to do more to help the most vulnerable groups affected by the decision.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that people over 75 who do not use the internet are not digitally excluded and will receive the necessary support to pay for a TV licence from June 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that people over 75 who do not use the internet are not digitally excluded and will receive the necessary support to pay for a TV licence from June 2020.
The future of the over 75 licence fee concession is the responsibility of the BBC. In the 2015 funding settlement, the Government and the BBC agreed that responsibility for the concession would transfer to the BBC in June 2020.
However, the Government is disappointed with the BBC’s decision as it has been clear that it wants and expects the BBC to continue this concession. Since the BBC took its decision, I have met with the Chairman of the BBC Board and the Director-General of the BBC and I have asked them to do more to help the most vulnerable groups affected by the decision.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he plans to take to ensure that people over 75 whose level of income is above the threshold of eligibility for pension credit are able to pay for a TV licence from June 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he plans to take to ensure that people over 75 whose level of income is above the threshold of eligibility for pension credit are able to pay for a TV licence from June 2020.
The future of the over 75 licence fee concession is the responsibility of the BBC. In the 2015 funding settlement, the Government and the BBC agreed that responsibility for the concession would transfer to the BBC in June 2020.
However, the Government is disappointed with the BBC’s decision as it has been clear that it wants and expects the BBC to continue this concession. Since the BBC took its decision, I have met with the Chairman of the BBC Board and the Director-General of the BBC and I have asked them to do more to help the most vulnerable groups affected by the decision.
To ask the Minister for Justice, what support he plans to provide to the courts service to deal with the potential increase in non-payment prosecution for TV licences by vulnerable defendants over the age of 75 who do not pay for a TV licence from June 2020.
To ask the Minister for Justice, what support he plans to provide to the courts service to deal with the potential increase in non-payment prosecution for TV licences by vulnerable defendants over the age of 75 who do not pay for a TV licence from June 2020.
TV Licensing prosecutions are dealt with via the Single Justice Procedure, which was introduced in 2015 to allow for more efficient resolution of low-level, summary only-non imprisonable offences in which the offender pleads guilty or does not respond. HMCTS has not made any specific arrangements for any potential increase in non-payment prosecutions for TV licences from June 2020. If required, to meet any emerging demand HMCTS will deploy its planning and allocation processes which allow for resource adjustment or reallocation.
To ask the Minister for Justice, whether he has made an estimate of the potential increase in the number of prosecutions there will be of people over 75 who have not paid for a TV licence from June 2020.
To ask the Minister for Justice, whether he has made an estimate of the potential increase in the number of prosecutions there will be of people over 75 who have not paid for a TV licence from June 2020.
The lead department on TV licencing is the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DDCMS).
The responsibility for TV licence fee concessions will pass from government to the BBC in June 2020, at which time the BBC has taken the decision to end free TV licences for all over 75s.
The Ministry of Justice has reviewed prosecution data between 1992 and 1999 for TV licence fee evasion, prior to the introduction of the concession, and established that there were no prosecutions of defendants over the age of 75 during this period.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department plans to take to help people over 75 with a long-term complex illness such as dementia to pay for a TV licence from June 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department plans to take to help people over 75 with a long-term complex illness such as dementia to pay for a TV licence from June 2020.
The BBC is responsible for the cost and the administration of the over 75 licence fee concession from June 2020.
The BBC says that it will work with older peoples groups, charities and voluntary organisations to design a bespoke system to support all those over 75 affected by its decision. As part of this system, the BBC says that its licensing arm, TV Licensing, will make it as easy as possible for carers and family members to act as representatives for pensioners seeking to claim a free TV licence, including those caring for elderly people with complex illnesses like dementia.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what guidance his Department plans to provide to carers who work with people over 75 to help those people pay for a TV licence from June 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what guidance his Department plans to provide to carers who work with people over 75 to help those people pay for a TV licence from June 2020.
The BBC is responsible for the cost and the administration of the over 75 licence fee concession from June 2020.
The BBC says that it will work with older peoples groups, charities and voluntary organisations to design a bespoke system to support all those over 75 affected by its decision. As part of this system, the BBC says that its licensing arm, TV Licensing, will make it as easy as possible for carers and family members to act as representatives for pensioners seeking to claim a free TV licence, including those caring for elderly people with complex illnesses like dementia.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effect of proposed changes to the TV licence for people over 75 on the accommodation for residential care concessionary TV licence; and what guidance his Department plans to provide to residential...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effect of proposed changes to the TV licence for people over 75 on the accommodation for residential care concessionary TV licence; and what guidance his Department plans to provide to residential...
The future of the over 75 licence fee concession is the responsibility of the BBC. However, the Government has no intention to change the accommodation for residential care licence fee concession.
Guidance on the accommodation for residential care licence fee concession can be found on the TV Licensing website: https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ78