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registered interest
date	04/12/2015
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	Renewable Energy: Heating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what forecast her Department has made of the level of potential underspend on the (a) domestic and (b) non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive in 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	18821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) does not operate under separate budgets for the domestic and non-domestic schemes. For 2015/16 it has a single budget limit of £430m for both schemes combined. This is a spending limit, not a central forecast; and the scheme is not deemed to have ‘underspent’ if expenditure is below that limit. The central spend forecast for 2015/16 that was set out at the time the £430m budget limit was agreed (as part of the 2013 Spending Round) was £365m.</p><br /><p>DECC does not regularly publish forecast expenditure for financial years; instead publishing monthly data on ‘committed expenditure’ – the estimated costs of supporting all plants applied to the scheme for a rolling 12-month cycle.</p><br /><p>However, as part of the 2015 Comprehensive Spending Review, the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) have published a forecast of £420m for 15/16:</p><br /><p><a href="http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/supplementary-forecast-information/" target="_blank">http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/supplementary-forecast-information/</a>.</p><br /><p>This is still subject to considerable uncertainty, as the scheme is largely paid on metered heat; and so final expenditure will be determined by the level of heat generation this winter, as well as rates of new applications.</p><br /> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/12/2015 17:10:00 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

433972

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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	Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when she plans to publish details of how her Department plans to reform the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme to make the savings announced in the Autumn Statement 2015.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Huw Irranca-Davies
uin	18670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>Officials have begun discussions with stakeholders, and we plan to consult on the changes in the New Year.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/12/2015 17:08:02 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1476 label Biography information for Huw Irranca-Davies

433973

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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	Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether it is her policy that anaerobic digestion will continue to be supported under the reformed Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Huw Irranca-Davies
uin	18671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>We are still at an early stage in the process of reforming the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). Therefore, I am unable to make specific commitments as to the future shape of the scheme at this point.</p><br /><p>However, Ofgem will continue to run the RHI under the current rules, while we consider reform of the scheme.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/12/2015 17:09:10 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1476 label Biography information for Huw Irranca-Davies

433793

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
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	Renewable Energy: Foreign Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which energy companies have received public funding for renewable contracts and have contracted supply chain work to overseas companies.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	18517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>Energy companies accredited under the Renewables Obligation are recorded in Ofgem’s Renewables and CHP register:</p><p><a href="https://www.renewablesandchp.ofgem.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.renewablesandchp.ofgem.gov.uk/</a>.</p><br /><p>Whilst the award of supply chain contracts is a matter of commercial negotiation for the companies in question, UK content in the supply chain is important to this Government, and my Department takes steps to maximise it. For example, DECC, together with UKTI and BIS, works closely with each offshore wind farm developer to ensure that UK companies are able to bid for contracts in an open and fair competition process.</p><br /><p><ins class="ministerial">Offshore Wind Developers have committed to achieving their vision statement of providing over 50% UK content in UK offshore wind farms. There is an agreed industry standard methodology in place for the Industry to measure and record the UK content in each offshore wind farm. The industry publishes the anonymised and consolidated results to allow the sector and the public to track the sector’s progress towards fulfilling their vision.</ins></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/12/2015 15:50:47 question first ministerially corrected 14/12/2015 15:07:26 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 34622 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

433794

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
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	Department of Energy and Climate Change: Ministerial Policy Advisers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, on how many occasions a special adviser in her Department accompanied a Minister on an overseas trip since May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	18500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State has been accompanied by special advisers on three overseas trips since May 2015.</p><br /> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/12/2015 17:14:51 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

433091

registered interest
date	30/11/2015
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	Plutonium
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether there are any treaty obligations that the development of a solution for the disposition of plutonium will have to meet, and if so, what are those obligations.
tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
uin	HL4051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>Any solution for the disposition of plutonium will need to be fully compliant with the UK’s obligations under such treaties as the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and the Euratom Treaty (including any Euratom directives issued thereunder, for example the COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 2013/59/EURATOM of 5 December 2013, which requires safety standards for the protection of the health of workers and the general public against the dangers arising from ionizing radiation). The particular treaty obligations that may be triggered will depend on the nature of the chosen disposition solution.</p><br /> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 09/12/2015 17:08:12 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead