Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2022 on Bulb Energy: Takeovers, at what point during the takeover of Bulb Energy by Octopus Energy the process will cease to be commercially sensitive.
Alan Whitehead: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the Lifetime ISA limit.
Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November 2022 to Question 78625, how much funding was claimed by Bulb Energy under the draw down funding agreement with BEIS before Bulb Energy was taken over by Octopus Energy.
Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2022 to Question 77243 on Bulb Energy: Insolvency, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact on customer bills of use of the shortfall recovery mechanism in relation to this case.
Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2022 to Question 77243 on Bulb Energy: Insolvency, whether there is a cap on the cost of the shortfall recovery mechanism that can be charged via a levy on energy suppliers.
Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the total amount of customers' credit balances held by Bulb Energy.
Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will provide details of the profit share agreement that will apply until Octopus Energy has repaid the public funding from Government for the cost of the energy bought for Bulb customers.
Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether Octopus Energy is required to repay the costs of the energy that the Government will buy for Bulb customers in winter 2022.
Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the impact of the Smart Meter Data Access and Privacy Framework 2012 on proposals to collect data from electricity meters as part of the Energy Price Guarantee Scheme.
Alan Whitehead: What progress she has made on implementing the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme.
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.
Alan Whitehead: 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.
Alan Whitehead: 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.
Alan Whitehead: 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.
Alan Whitehead: 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 are not lost in the event of an insolvency.
Alan Whitehead: 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.
Alan Whitehead: 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.
Alan Whitehead: 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 for the transition of customers from Bulb.
Alan Whitehead: 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.
Alan Whitehead: 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, announced by his Department on 29 October 2022.