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	date	25/11/2014
	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	Water
	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 he is taking to reduce water (a) usage and (b) bills in his Department; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
	uin	215960
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) already utilises water efficient appliances, including waterless urinals. In addition, over the past twelve months DECC has undertaken a number of measures aimed at reducing its water use and water bills. These include undertaking an independent water audit, increased maintenance on its hot and cold water dispensers to make them more efficient, the closing and draining down of its cooling towers over the winter months when chilling is not required, staff awareness raising measures and maintenance work to fix a small number of leaking taps.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 03/12/2014 16:01:44 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
	tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

166554

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2014
	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	Timber: Waste
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the amount of wood waste in the UK which is suitable for incineration in biomass power stations.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
	uin	216276
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government has made no assessment of the amount of wood waste in the UK which is suitable for incineration in biomass stations. However, a market situation report published by Waste &amp; Resources Action Programme UK in 2011 stated that “almost 2.3 million tonnes of wood waste was recycled or used in energy recovery in the UK in 2010, over 50% of estimated UK wood waste arisings”. Of this, the end market for 0.55 million tonnes is listed as biomass/energy.</p><p><a href="http://www.wrap.org.uk/sites/files/wrap/Wood%20Market%20Situation%20Report_0.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.wrap.org.uk/sites/files/wrap/Wood%20Market%20Situation%20Report_0.pdf</a></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 03/12/2014 16:02:52 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd attachment 1 file name Wood Market Situation Report.pdf title WRAP: Market Situation Report Recovered Wood 2011 previous answer version 31362 answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
	tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie