Asked by: Ged Killen (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many green deal providers were refused the right to produce green deal reports.
Answered by Claire Perry
Green Deal Providers are just one of four key authorised participants involved in the Green Deal customer journey, each with different customer interactions. There are also differences in the requirements to become authorised participants. The criteria that they have to meet are set out in the Green Deal Framework (Disclosure, Acknowledgement, Redress etc.) Regulations 2012.
Organisations are not required to have UKAS approval in order to become Green Deal Providers.
It is not the Provider’s role to produce Green Deal reports (or “Green Deal Advice Reports”). This is the responsibility of the Green Deal Assessor. No Providers, therefore, have been refused the right to produce Green Deal reports.
The table below sets out the number of organisations, by year, who have been registered as Green Deal Providers. These numbers do not take account of the numbers by year who have withdrawn from the scheme. The total number of currently-authorised Providers is 169.
2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
19 | 100 | 52 | 16 | 11 | 7 |
Asked by: Ged Killen (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many green deal providers have registered with the Green Deal Registration and Oversight Body in each year since that body has been established.
Answered by Claire Perry
Green Deal Providers are just one of four key authorised participants involved in the Green Deal customer journey, each with different customer interactions. There are also differences in the requirements to become authorised participants. The criteria that they have to meet are set out in the Green Deal Framework (Disclosure, Acknowledgement, Redress etc.) Regulations 2012.
Organisations are not required to have UKAS approval in order to become Green Deal Providers.
It is not the Provider’s role to produce Green Deal reports (or “Green Deal Advice Reports”). This is the responsibility of the Green Deal Assessor. No Providers, therefore, have been refused the right to produce Green Deal reports.
The table below sets out the number of organisations, by year, who have been registered as Green Deal Providers. These numbers do not take account of the numbers by year who have withdrawn from the scheme. The total number of currently-authorised Providers is 169.
2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
19 | 100 | 52 | 16 | 11 | 7 |
Asked by: Ged Killen (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many green deal providers were not certified by UKAS as meeting the green deal standard in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015.
Answered by Claire Perry
Green Deal Providers are just one of four key authorised participants involved in the Green Deal customer journey, each with different customer interactions. There are also differences in the requirements to become authorised participants. The criteria that they have to meet are set out in the Green Deal Framework (Disclosure, Acknowledgement, Redress etc.) Regulations 2012.
Organisations are not required to have UKAS approval in order to become Green Deal Providers.
It is not the Provider’s role to produce Green Deal reports (or “Green Deal Advice Reports”). This is the responsibility of the Green Deal Assessor. No Providers, therefore, have been refused the right to produce Green Deal reports.
The table below sets out the number of organisations, by year, who have been registered as Green Deal Providers. These numbers do not take account of the numbers by year who have withdrawn from the scheme. The total number of currently-authorised Providers is 169.
2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
19 | 100 | 52 | 16 | 11 | 7 |
Asked by: Ged Killen (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many green deal providers were investigated by the green deal oversight body between 2015 and 2018.
Answered by Claire Perry
Since the Green Deal was introduced, two companies have been investigated by the Green Deal Ombudsman and Investigation Service. The first was concluded in 2015 by a sanction against the company Home Energy and Lifestyle Management Ltd. The other investigation took place during 2015 and did not lead to a sanction. Separately, the Green Deal Oversight and Registration Body carried out 44 audits of Green Deal Providers since 2013.
Asked by: Ged Killen (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many green deal providers were investigated by the green deal oversight body between 2013 and 2015.
Answered by Claire Perry
Since the Green Deal was introduced, two companies have been investigated by the Green Deal Ombudsman and Investigation Service. The first was concluded in 2015 by a sanction against the company Home Energy and Lifestyle Management Ltd. The other investigation took place during 2015 and did not lead to a sanction. Separately, the Green Deal Oversight and Registration Body carried out 44 audits of Green Deal Providers since 2013.
Asked by: Ged Killen (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if the Government will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that post offices provide free access to ATMs when there is no other ATM within 1km of that post office.
Answered by Andrew Griffiths
The Government recognises that widespread free access to cash remains extremely important to the day-to-day lives of many consumers and businesses in the UK. Government has been engaging and will continue to engage with industry to ensure that this access is maintained.
LINK, the main scheme behind the UK’s ATM network, has assured us that industry is committed to maintaining an extensive network of free-to-use cash machines, and to ensuring that the present geographical spread of ATMs is maintained. LINK intends to bolster its Financial Inclusion Programme, which ensures the provision of ATMs in areas of deprivation, where demand would not otherwise make one viable, and has also committed to protecting all free-to-use ATMs which are a kilometre or more from the next nearest free-to-use ATM.
The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), which Government set up as an independent regulator in 2015 with a statutory objective to ensure that the UK’s payment systems work in the interests of their users, is monitoring developments within ATM provision, and is conducting ongoing work on the impact that changes may have. The PSR has recently published a summary of their work to date, which can be found at https://www.psr.org.uk/psr-focus/the-UK-ATM-network.
The PSR has committed to using its powers to act should any of the firms it regulates behave in a way that conflicts with its statutory objectives.
99% of UK personal bank accounts and 95% of small business accounts can be accessed to withdraw cash and deposit cash and cheques over the counter in any of the UK’s network of over 11,600 post offices.
Asked by: Ged Killen (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment the Government has made of whether the post office network will have the capacity to meet any increase in demand for banking services after the closure of a number of RBS and NatWest bank branches; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Andrew Griffiths
The Government is committed to improving access to financial services for all consumers and small businesses in the UK.
99% of UK personal bank accounts and 95% of small business accounts can be accessed to withdraw cash and deposit cash and cheques over the counter in any of the UK’s network of over 11,600 post offices. It is the operational responsibility of the Post Office to meet its contractual obligations under the agreement it has with the banks to provide banking services.