Written Question
Friday 28th October 2022
Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour - Edinburgh South)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the answer of 24 October to question 59611 on Energy Bills Rebate, if he will take steps to ensure that households which have different energy meters for their home and garage or other building attached to the original dwelling do not receive two or more Energy Bill Support Scheme payments.
Answered by Graham Stuart
I refer the hon Member to the answer I gave to him on 24 October to Question 59611.
Written Question
Monday 24th October 2022
Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour - Edinburgh South)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on fairness of households which have different energy suppliers for their (a) home and (b) garage and receive two Energy Bill Support Scheme payments as a result; and whether he will take steps to prevent this from occurring.
Answered by Graham Stuart
It is possible for individuals to benefit more than once from EBSS, where an individual is responsible for separate domestic contracts relating to more than one property.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 19 Oct 2022
Scottish Devolution Settlement: Retained EU Law
"I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way and for raising this, because it is a fallacy that people would want to go back to those kinds of measurements. What the Business Secretary is trying to claim about going back to those measurements is just farcical. Could we …..."Ian Murray - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 19 Oct 2022
Scottish Devolution Settlement: Retained EU Law
"It is a great pleasure to serve with you in the Chair for the first time, Mrs Murray. I congratulate the hon. Member for Argyll and Bute (Brendan O’Hara) on bringing this debate. We never know during these debates which Minister will actually turn up, because we are never quite …..."Ian Murray - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 19 Oct 2022
Scottish Devolution Settlement: Retained EU Law
"The powers argument is a consequence of what the UK Government are trying to do. They want to get rid of all this EU law and this is the way they want to do it, so it is an ideologically driven piece of legislation and policy. The consequences of that …..."Ian Murray - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 19 Oct 2022
Scottish Devolution Settlement: Retained EU Law
"That is more fantasy from the SNP. I find it strange that, when we have a Government on their knees bringing forward a piece of legislation that ultimately could undermine devolution, the main part of the hon. Member’s speech was an attack on the Labour party. That maybe tells us …..."Ian Murray - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 19 Oct 2022
Scottish Devolution Settlement: Retained EU Law
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 19 Oct 2022
Scottish Devolution Settlement: Retained EU Law
"Perhaps the hon. Member for Argyll and Bute (Brendan O'Hara) wants to make the same point. The Minister is refusing to give us examples, so let us give him an example and he can tell us whether it would be allowable. Say food regulations were reduced and chlorinated chicken in …..."Ian Murray - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 19 Oct 2022
Scottish Devolution Settlement: Retained EU Law
"The Minister has been hugely generous in taking interventions—he is a friendly Minister—but he is not quite answering the questions. He is pretending to answer the questions, but is not quite doing so. Let me give him a practical example. Before 31 December 2023, the EU law on food standards …..."Ian Murray - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 19th October 2022
Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour - Edinburgh South)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of making multiple Energy Bills Support Scheme payments to households that have more than one energy supplier.
Answered by Graham Stuart
Eligibility for EBSS payment is determined on the basis of a Domestic Customer who is party to a Domestic Supply Contract or a Deemed Contract for electricity supply which relates to a Domestic Premises. Only one Domestic Customer per Domestic Supply Contract or Deemed Contract per Domestic Premises is considered an eligible customer. There may be highly limited supply meters and separate contracts with domestic electricity suppliers, however, these circumstances were considered so rare as to not requiring specific consideration.