Dr Alan Whitehead

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government will be liable for any redundancy payments to employees of Bulb Energy when the sale of Bulb Energy to Octopus Energy is completed.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government agreement with Octopus Energy to take over Bulb Energy includes the sale of Bulb Energy's parent company Simple Energy Ltd.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the cost to the public purse has been of Government support for Bulb Energy since November 2021.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allocating a dedicated radio spectrum to utilities networks.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring energy companies to ringfence the credit balances of their customers to ensure that those balances a...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what financial support the Government is providing to support Octopus Energy in its takeover of Bulb Energy.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much Octopus Energy is paying the Government to take over Bulb Energy.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether former customers of Bulb will face future charges to their energy bills as and when Octopus Energy is required to repay financial support provided to it by the Government ...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if she will publish details of Ofgem’s assessment of the transfer of Bulb’s customers to Octopus.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Competition and Markets Authority will be carrying out an assessment of market competition following the transfer of 1.5 million customers from Bulb to Octopus Energy,...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of NHS dentists accepting new patients in Southampton.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if she will make an estimate of the proportion of customers on fixed term energy contracts who entered those contracts before April 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, (a) whether his Department has assessed the extent to which Defra’s proposed land use framework will utilise (i) nature-based carbon sequestration and (ii) bioenergy with carbon c...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of households have a smart meter in each region of the UK as of 12 October 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to Answer of 23 September to Question 51406, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the phased approach Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to take steps with Cabinet colleagues to regularly review the cap on household energy bills so that it reflects any reductions in global energy prices over the ne...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason his Department sometimes requires (a) energy companies and (b) other trade bodies to sign non-disclosure agreements when discussing energy policy with his Departme...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, (a) in what way his Department defines ‘sustainable biomass’ and (b) whether that definition takes into account any impact on the health of people living near to the source of the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support households on heat networks who are not covered by the domestic price cap.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department will provide equivalent support for heat network customers as if being offered by the domestic price cap freeze for the next 2 years.