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226667

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
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	Macquarie Bank
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what meetings his Department has had with Macquarie Bank since May 2010; and who was present at such meetings.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	227238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>Details of meetings between Ministers and external organisations are published quarterly on the Departmental website at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-energy-climate-change/series/ministers-meeting-with-external-organisations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-energy-climate-change/series/ministers-meeting-with-external-organisations</a>.</p><p>Details of meetings involving DECC officials with Macquarie Bank during the period requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 18/03/2015 17:57:41 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

226671

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
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	Macquarie Bank
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which of his Department's projects Macquarie Bank has invested in since May 2010; and how much it has invested in each such project.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	227245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department’s financial records show that no payments were received through the Department’s financial system from Macquarie Bank from 1 January 2010 to 12 March 2015.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 17/03/2015 17:23:26 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

226673

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
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	Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department spent on (a) television advertising, (b) radio advertising, (c) national newspaper advertisements, (d) local newspaper advertisements, (e) social media advertising and (f) other types of advertising in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	227342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>Total advertising spend, excluding VAT, is set out in the table below. The figures include associated costs such as the production of creative services. A breakdown by category is not available.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Advertising</strong></p><p><strong>Spend</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>£118k</p></td><td><p>£137k</p></td><td><p>£3.112M</p></td><td><p>£2.138M</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Spend in FY 12-13, 13-14 &amp; 14-15 includes advertising for the Green Deal. The Green Deal helps you make energy-saving improvements to your home and find the best way to pay for them.</p><p>During FY 14-15 we have allocated an advertising budget for the ‘Power to Switch Campaign’ as follows:</p><p> </p><ul><li>£620,000 to develop, produce and supply advertisements. This includes budgets agreed with the agency to produce each of the TV and Radio advertisements;</li><li>£4,100,000 to buy advertising space (including agency media buying and communications planning fees).</li></ul><p>The FY 14-15 figure includes £335k spent on the ‘Power to Switch Campaign’. Actual final spends are not yet available.</p><p>The 'Power to Switch' campaign will run for 5 weeks and will include national, regional and online advertising, encouraging people to switch and save.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 18/03/2015 17:57:20 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

226680

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
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	Surveys
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff in his Department reported experiencing bullying or harassment at work in the most recent Civil Service People Survey.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	227151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>In the 2014 People Survey, 13% of DECC respondents declaring a long-standing physical or mental health condition, illness, impairment or disability reported that they had personally experienced bullying or harassment at work in the past 12 months.</p><p>6% of DECC respondents declaring that they did not have a long-standing physical or mental health condition, illness, impairment or disability reported that they had personally experienced bullying or harassment at work in the past 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>To note, the Civil Service People Survey asks the question “Do you have any long-standing physical or mental health condition, illness, impairment or disability?” The survey does not include a question that specifically identifies disability status.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 18/03/2015 18:01:28 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

226865

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
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	Fracking
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the advance payment of £100,000 to local communities for every site fracked during exploratory fracking is voluntary or whether it is a condition of a licence being granted.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL5652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>The shale gas industry has made a commitment to the Community Engagement Charter, co-ordinated by its representative body UK Onshore Oil and Gas, which includes a commitment to provide benefits to local communities at the exploration/appraisal stage of a minimum £100,000 per well site where hydraulic fracturing takes place.</p><p>The Infrastructure Act 2015 introduced a range of further requirements that must be met before an operator can carry out hydraulic fracturing. Once these provisions come into force, the Government will not issue a hydraulic fracturing consent unless satisfied that a scheme is in place to provide financial or other benefit for the local area.</p><p>A Sovereign Wealth Fund would ensure that revenues from shale gas and oil are put to good use. Proposals will be brought forward in the next Parliament.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 24/03/2015 14:26:17 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

226869

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
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	Energy: Conservation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to ensure that all remote areas and islands, such as the Isles of Scilly, can take the same advantage as urban areas of energy saving schemes such as the Energy Companies Obligation.
tabling member printed	Lord Teverson
uin	HL5661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The Energy Company Obligation (ECO) is an obligation that the Government has placed on certain energy suppliers to reduce the UK’s energy consumption and support those living in fuel poverty by requiring those suppliers to provide households with energy efficiency improvements. It is designed for suppliers to meet their obligation in the most cost-effective way in order to limit the costs passed on to consumer energy bills within certain parameters.</p><p>15% of a suppliers’ activity towards meeting its Community Saving Carbon obligation must be met in rural areas. We’re also making changes to the scheme’s Affordable Warmth obligation up to 2017 so that as much as 30% of the homes helped by energy suppliers under that group will be non-gas fuelled households.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 23/03/2015 17:03:52 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	3789 label Biography information for Lord Teverson

226220

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
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	Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the cost to the public purse was of the Government's advertising campaign encouraging consumers to switch energy providers.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Murphy
uin	227021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>As the campaign is still ongoing the actual final spends are not yet available, but we have allocated a budget for the Power to Switch Campaign as follows:</p><ul><li>£620,000 to develop, produce and supply advertisements;</li><li>£4,100,000 to buy advertising space (including agency media buying and communications planning fees).</li></ul><p>The Power to Switch Campaign encourages people to switch supplier and save money by visiting:</p><p><a href="http://www.beanenergyshopper.com/" target="_blank">www.BeAnEnergyShopper.com</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 18/03/2015 17:58:08 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	595 label Biography information for Mr Jim Murphy

226268

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
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	Offshore Industry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when Ministers of his Department last met representatives of the oil and gas industry; what was discussed at that meeting; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Murphy
uin	227019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>Details of meetings between Ministers and external organisations are published quarterly on the <a href="http://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a> website at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-of-energy-climate-change&amp;publication_type=transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-of-energy-climate-change&amp;publication_type=transparency-data</a></p><p>Meetings from July 2014 to December 2014 are currently being collated and checked prior to publication.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 20/03/2015 14:52:20 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	595 label Biography information for Mr Jim Murphy

226269

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
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	Energy: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2015 to Question 220887, what powers his Department plans to give Ofgem to ensure that gas suppliers cannot ask a vulnerable customer to pay a standing charge if they are not consuming gas at all.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	226938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>Ofgem has been clear to suppliers that customers in vulnerable situations should not have to pay a standing charge if they are not consuming any gas. It is for Ofgem, as the independent regulator, to decide whether further action is necessary.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 17/03/2015 17:21:10 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

226271

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
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	Surveys
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff in his Department responded that they were treated fairly at work in the most recent Civil Service People Survey.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	226964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>In the 2014 People Survey, 72% of DECC respondents declaring a long-standing physical or mental health condition, illness, impairment or disability responded that they were treated fairly at work.</p><p>86% of DECC respondents declaring that they did not have a long-standing physical or mental health condition, illness, impairment or disability responded that they were treated fairly at work.</p><p>To note that the Civil Service People Survey asks the question “Do you have any long-standing physical or mental health condition, illness, impairment or disability?” The survey does not include a question that specifically identifies disability status.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 18/03/2015 17:51:19 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck