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date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Electricity Generation: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of (a) replacing the Emissions Trading System modernisation funding and (b) redirecting investment in coal power stations to clean energy after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	121302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>Regarding (a), as the Clean Growth Strategy sets out, the Government is considering the UK’s future participation in the EU Emissions Trading System after our exit from the EU and we remain firmly committed to carbon pricing as an emissions reduction tool. We will seek to ensure that any future approach is at least as ambitious as the existing scheme and provide a smooth transition for the relevant sectors.</p><p> </p><p>Regarding (b), the Government makes no investment in coal power. We have this month set out our proposals for ending unabated coal power generation from 2025. This policy sends a clear signal to investors in new generation capacity that we are moving to a cleaner electricity system, guaranteeing reductions in CO2 and air pollution by 2025.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 11/01/2018 14:17:16 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

622728

registered interest
date	27/10/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Electricity Generation: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish the evidence used to inform the range of the costs set out for alternative large-scale low carbon generation technologies in the 2020s in his Department's Hinkley Point C Value for Money Assessment.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	50624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department expects to publish the update of our evidence on the levelised costs of electricity generation in due course.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 04/11/2016 12:36:04 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

622730

registered interest
date	27/10/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Electricity Generation: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reasons the range of the costs for alternative large-scale low carbon generation technologies in the 2020s as set out in his Department's Hinkley Point C Value for Money Assessment differs from the assessment of the same technologies in the National Audit Office report on Nuclear power in the UK, published in July 2016.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	50621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>The National Audit Office report in question refers to preliminary estimates of levelised cost data from this evidence update. These have not been published. However, we expect to publish the update of the evidence on the levelised costs of electricity generation in due course.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 04/11/2016 12:37:18 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig