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518529

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date	09/05/2016
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Tidal Power
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assistance she plans to provide for the development of tidal stream power technology.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	905007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>That the UK has deployed the world’s first commercial scale tidal stream turbine MCT SeaGen, a 1.2MW project.</p><p>The world’s first multi-turbine tidal stream array, MeyGen 1A, received £10m in DECC innovation funding and will be deployed in the UK this year.</p><p>We are looking at what more we can do to support these developing technologies.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/05/2016 11:22:10 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

518569

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Hinkley Point C Power Station
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will make it her policy to renegotiate with EDF the strike price for Hinkley Point C power station.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	905010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>Hinkley Point C is a good deal for consumers – it will provide reliable energy at an affordable cost, powering nearly six million homes for around 60 years and creating more than 25,000 jobs.</p><p>Today nuclear provides around 16% of our electricity but these ageing plants won’t go on forever. Therefore the Government is committed to our policy of building new nuclear in the interest of energy security, decarbonisation and keeping costs down for the consumer.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/05/2016 11:21:20 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

518570

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Competition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps she plans to take to improve the effectiveness of the energy supply market for businesses.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	904996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>We want to see even more competition to keep energy costs down for businesses.</p><p>The Competition and Markets Authority has already published some suggestions such as requiring suppliers to publish tariffs online and making switching easier for businesses on auto-rollover contracts.</p><p>We are looking forward to the CMA’s final report and are committed to implementing their recommendations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/05/2016 11:21:46 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell