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524951

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2016
	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	Nuclear Power: Safety
	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 she has made of the potential effect of a vote to leave the EU on the involvement of UK organisations in (a) the European Safeguards Research and Development Association and (b) the European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	40602
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">At the February European Council, the Government negotiated a new settlement, giving the United Kingdom a special status in a reformed European Union.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The Government's position, as set out by the Prime Minister to the House on 22 February, is that the UK will be stronger, safer and better off remaining in a reformed EU.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">I refer the hon. Gentleman to the statement given by the Prime Minister on 24 June:</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/eu-referendum-outcome-pm-statement-24-june-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/eu-referendum-outcome-pm-statement-24-june-2016</a>.</ins></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 27/06/2016 09:07:45 question first ministerially corrected 27/06/2016 12:21:41 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd previous answer version 4383 answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

454827

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2016
	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	Sellafield: Conditions of Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what changes have been proposed to the existing terms and conditions of the Sellafield workforce under the workforce reform initiative.
	tabling member constituency	Copeland
	tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
	uin	28221
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2016 answer text <p>The Sellafield Change Programme is being put into place to improve business performance and provide greater value for the public purse while maintaining the priority of safe and secure operations. In relation to terms and conditions of employment, there are two improvements being proposed by Sellafield Ltd: first, changes to the pay and grading structure of existing staff, to ensure that pay and grading is fair and equitable; and second, new terms for new starters that are more closely aligned to market practice. In both cases the business has and will continue to engage with its employees and their representatives on the proposed changes.</p><p> </p><p>Details of the change programme are available<ins class="ministerial"> in the attached.</ins> <del class="ministerial">at:</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial"><a href="http://www.nda.gov.uk/contracts-and-competition/sellafield-model-change-programme" target="_blank">http://www.nda.gov.uk/contracts-and-competition/sellafield-model-change-programme</a>.</del></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 03/03/2016 15:55:17 question first ministerially corrected 08/03/2016 13:52:35 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom attachment 1 file name New_Management_Arrangements_for_Sellafield_-_Stakeholder_Briefing.pdf title New Management Arrangements: Sellafield previous answer version 48819 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

530749

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2016
	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	Euratom
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to leave the European Atomic Energy Community.
	tabling member printed	Lord Inglewood
	uin	HL911
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2016 answer text <p>The implications of the European referendum result for our membership of the European Atomic Energy Community have yet to be determined. It will be for the Government, under the new Prime Minister, to begin negotiations to exit the EU and determine our future relationship with the European Atomic Energy Community.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 07/07/2016 11:16:27 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	1980 label Biography information for Lord Inglewood

528860

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2016
	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	Prisoners
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the Secretary of State for Energy will respond to the Committee on Climate Change's report on the environmental impact of shale gas fracking submitted to the Department of Energy and Climate Change on 30 March.
	tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
	uin	HL821
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2016 answer text <p>The Government has received the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) report. We are carefully considering the report to ensure it is given the proper consideration it is due.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Infrastructure Act 2015, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change is required to lay the CCC report and our response before Parliament together. They will be published as soon as practicable once our response is complete.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 05/07/2016 13:09:31 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

517006

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2016
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 24 March (HL6984) concerning Hinkley Point nuclear power station, what effect the delay by the government of France will have on the project and its projected completion date.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL8161
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>Both the French Government and EDF have restated their support for the Hinkley Point C project. After addressing the financing of the company and its investment plans, the chairman of EDF has begun a non-binding consultation with the company council ahead of a final investment decision. In the meantime, EDF has maintained development work in order to secure the overall schedule of the project. EDF has not changed the planned date for first operation in 2025.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 09/05/2016 16:26:08 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

516976

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2016
	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	Fracking: Ryedale
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the possible impact on the local economy and the environment of hydraulic fracturing in Ryedale, and what were the results of the economic impact assessment carried out on that proposed development.
	tabling member printed	Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
	uin	HL8132
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>A planning application for the extraction of shale gas in Ryedale is currently under consideration by North Yorkshire County Council. It would not be appropriate for the Government to comment on the specifics of any proposal. It will be for the Council to take into account the impacts of the proposed development on the local economy and the environment as relevant in its determination of that application.</p><p>The Government continues to support the development of the shale industry in the UK. It has the potential to power economic growth, create tens of thousands of jobs and provide a new domestic energy source, making us less reliant on imports from abroad.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 09/05/2016 16:27:29 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

516588

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2016
	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	Anaerobic Digestion
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of how the carbon emissions of waste-fed anaerobic digestion plants compare to those of plants fed by energy crops.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer
	uin	HL8100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>The carbon emissions from anaerobic digestion (AD) plants have been assessed by adding together; the greenhouse gas emissions from the AD plant including an estimate of their methane leakage rate, the reduction in UK greenhouse gas emissions from the use of biomethane to substitute for natural gas in the gas grid, and where this is relevant, the emissions avoided by no longer needing to dispose of the feedstock. The estimates below are for typical plants and will depend on particular circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>For food waste this net change in greenhouse gas emissions was assessed as a saving of 850 g of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt hour of energy in the biomethane produced (g CO<sub>2eq</sub> /kWh). This arises principally from the reduction in emissions from the landfilling of food waste. Animal waste based AD plant save emissions of 704 g CO<sub>2eq</sub> /kWh as a result of the reduction in storage emissions of slurries and manures. The use of annual energy crops for AD was assessed as saving 102 g CO<sub>2eq</sub> /kWh.</p><p> </p><p>The assumptions behind this assessment are detailed in the Impact Assessment that accompanied the recent consultation ‘The Renewable Heat Incentive: A reformed and refocused scheme’ and did not taken account of any additional carbon emissions impacts relating to indirect land use change, which may arise from changes in agricultural land caused by the expansion of croplands for feedstock production.</p><p> </p><p>This evidence was drawn from the modelling that supported the Impact Assessment for the recent Renewable Heat Incentive consultation that closed on 27th April.</p><p> </p><p>Food waste is estimated to be considerably more cost-effective than agricultural feedstocks because of the ‘upstream’ emissions abatement that is assumed to occur as a result of diverting food waste from landfill to an anaerobic digester. This is despite the controls that are in place at landfill sites to collect and combust landfill gas.</p><p> </p><p>Agricultural wastes are also assumed to produce upstream emission abatement owing largely to avoided emissions from the storage of slurries and manures, although these are less significant than the upstream abatement from food waste. In contrast energy crops do not offer these GHG emission reduction advantages.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 10/05/2016 11:09:27 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	1934 label Biography information for Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer

516398

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2016
	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	Climate Change
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of UK environmental and climate change legislation derives (1) from EU directives transposed into UK legislation, (2) from EU regulations without need for transposition, and (3) from wholly domestic legislation; and of the legislation that derives from EU directives, what proportion is dependent on the European Communities Act 1972.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Young of Old Scone
	uin	HL8036
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>Although specific figures for environment and climate change are not available, the House of Commons library has concluded that across the full range of UK instruments, from 1997 to 2014, an average of 13.2% were EU-related. A copy of the report is attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 11/05/2016 11:34:52 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth attachment 1 file name SN07092 - EU obligations UK implementing legislation since 1993.pdf title SN07092 - EU & UK legislation since 1993
	tabling member	1755 label Biography information for Baroness Young of Old Scone

516391

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2016
	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	Civil Nuclear Constabulary: Pensions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations and advice they have received from (1) the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, (2) the Civil Nuclear Police Authority, and (3) the Civil Nuclear Police Federation, regarding the normal retirement age of 60 for Civil Nuclear Constabulary officers.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Smith of Basildon
	uin	HL8029
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>My hon. Friend the Minister of State for Energy has met with the Chair of the Civil Nuclear Police Authority (CNPA) and the Chief Constable of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) on two occasions since taking office where the pension age of officers was discussed. In October 2015 and March 2016.</p><p> </p><p>The Minister of State has recently written to the Civil Nuclear Police Federation about meeting representatives of that organisation to discuss issues including the age at which CNC officers receive their pension.</p><p> </p><p>Officials at the Department of Energy and Climate Change have worked closely with officials at the CNPA and CNC at all levels, up to and including the Chief Constable, on the issue of the pension age of CNC officers since May 2014. The Department has received frequent and substantial advice on all aspects of this issue. This includes, but is not limited to, the impact of fitness standards on CNC officers and how those standards affect deployability of officers, and the costs of administering a pension scheme with a lower effective pension age.</p><p> </p><p>The Minister of State has received two letters from the Civil Nuclear Police Federation outlining their legal case for a lower pension age. Officials have met with the Civil Nuclear Police Federation to discuss the pension age of CNC officers on two occasions in 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth grouped question UIN HL8027 HL8028 question first answered 11/05/2016 11:37:07 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	4170 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Basildon

516390

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2016
	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	Civil Nuclear Constabulary: Pensions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consultation has taken place between the Department of Energy and Climate Change and (1) the Civil Nuclear Police Authority, (2) the Chief Constable of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, and (3) the Civil Nuclear Police Federation, in relation to the occupational retirement age of Civil Nuclear Constabulary officers.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Smith of Basildon
	uin	HL8028
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>My hon. Friend the Minister of State for Energy has met with the Chair of the Civil Nuclear Police Authority (CNPA) and the Chief Constable of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) on two occasions since taking office where the pension age of officers was discussed. In October 2015 and March 2016.</p><p> </p><p>The Minister of State has recently written to the Civil Nuclear Police Federation about meeting representatives of that organisation to discuss issues including the age at which CNC officers receive their pension.</p><p> </p><p>Officials at the Department of Energy and Climate Change have worked closely with officials at the CNPA and CNC at all levels, up to and including the Chief Constable, on the issue of the pension age of CNC officers since May 2014. The Department has received frequent and substantial advice on all aspects of this issue. This includes, but is not limited to, the impact of fitness standards on CNC officers and how those standards affect deployability of officers, and the costs of administering a pension scheme with a lower effective pension age.</p><p> </p><p>The Minister of State has received two letters from the Civil Nuclear Police Federation outlining their legal case for a lower pension age. Officials have met with the Civil Nuclear Police Federation to discuss the pension age of CNC officers on two occasions in 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth grouped question UIN HL8027 HL8029 question first answered 11/05/2016 11:37:07 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	4170 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Basildon