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1143360

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	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	Working Hours: EU Law
	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 make it his policy to maintain the provisions of the Working Time Directive after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	284846
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>This Government is committed to maintaining and enhancing workers’ rights after the UK leaves the EU. The Working Time Directive is transposed into UK law through the Working Time Regulations 1998. The EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018 ensures that these and other Regulations will be retained when the UK leaves the EU.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 09/09/2019 12:18:10 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1150092

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	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	Working Hours
	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 her Department has made of the effect on the economy of reducing the working week to 32 hours.
	tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
	tabling member printed	John Lamont
	uin	1122
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>A shorter week can create practical challenges in treating all parts of the organisation fairly, and may even limit some employees’ flexibility. While there is evidence that a shorter working week can lead to higher productivity, the extent to which this would offset lost output from reduced hours is unclear.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 21/10/2019 16:22:59 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4608 label Biography information for John Lamont

1148198

	registered interest
	date	03/10/2019
	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	Wind Power: Subsidies
	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 the average subsidy payment per megawatt hour of energy produced was to (a) onshore and (b) offshore wind companies in each month since January 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	294226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>The average subsidy payment<sup> (1)(2)(3)</sup> to onshore and offshore wind companies per megawatt hour of electricity produced each month was:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Onshore wind</strong> <strong>(£/MWh)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Offshore wind </strong> <strong>(£/MWh)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan 2017</p></td><td><p>52.04</p></td><td><p>84.87</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb 2017</p></td><td><p>51.76</p></td><td><p>84.93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar 2017</p></td><td><p>51.31</p></td><td><p>84.67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr 2017</p></td><td><p>52.26</p></td><td><p>87.71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2017</p></td><td><p>52.30</p></td><td><p>88.28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun 2017</p></td><td><p>52.26</p></td><td><p>88.63</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul 2017</p></td><td><p>51.81</p></td><td><p>88.75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug 2017</p></td><td><p>52.07</p></td><td><p>89.72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep 2017</p></td><td><p>52.21</p></td><td><p>89.16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct 2017</p></td><td><p>51.92</p></td><td><p>89.93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov 2017</p></td><td><p>52.21</p></td><td><p>89.67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec 2017</p></td><td><p>51.64</p></td><td><p>88.87</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan 2018</p></td><td><p>51.50</p></td><td><p>89.84</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb 2018</p></td><td><p>51.47</p></td><td><p>89.43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar 2018</p></td><td><p>51.59</p></td><td><p>88.45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr 2018</p></td><td><p>52.79</p></td><td><p>93.45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2018</p></td><td><p>52.64</p></td><td><p>93.35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun 2018</p></td><td><p>53.79</p></td><td><p>93.37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul 2018</p></td><td><p>53.27</p></td><td><p>93.36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug 2018</p></td><td><p>52.51</p></td><td><p>92.97</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep 2018</p></td><td><p>52.98</p></td><td><p>91.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct 2018</p></td><td><p>52.56</p></td><td><p>92.10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov 2018</p></td><td><p>52.38</p></td><td><p>92.41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec 2018</p></td><td><p>52.38</p></td><td><p>92.11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan 2019</p></td><td><p>52.06</p></td><td><p>92.68</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb 2019</p></td><td><p>51.93</p></td><td><p>95.10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar 2019</p></td><td><p>52.83</p></td><td><p>95.88</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>(1) Subsidies are the Renewables Obligation, Contracts for Difference (CfD), and Feed-in Tariff (FIT). The bulk of the above support is from the Renewables Obligation. Going forward, we expect the average subsidy payment figures to fall as more projects are supported under the competitive Contracts for Difference scheme*.</p><p>(2) Includes payments to domestic and community FIT schemes for onshore wind.</p><p>(3) Spend is in real terms.</p><p>For the Renewables Obligation, the full value of support is made up of a main payment and a much smaller subsidiary payment. As the value of the subsidiary payment is not yet known for any of the years, the above figures include only the main payment.</p><p>Data for April 2019 onwards are not yet available.</p><p><em>*The results of the third Contracts for Difference auction were announced on 20 September 2019. 12 new renewable electricity projects were awarded CfDs (6 offshore wind, 4 Remote Island Wind and two Advanced Conversion Technology projects), adding around 6GW of new clean electricity to the grid from 2023. The costs of offshore wind have come down by around two thirds since the first allocation round in 2015, with projects now being delivered for as little as £39.65/MWh. This is the first time that renewables are expected to come online below market prices.</em></p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 08/10/2019 13:52:31 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1148196

	registered interest
	date	03/10/2019
	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	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
	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 she will list the offshore wind farm constraint payments made by the National Grid Electricity Systems Operator in each month since April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	294224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>National Grid Electricity System Operator (NGESO) publishes details of constraint payments by generation type in its ‘Monthly Balancing Services Summary’, which is available at: <a href="https://www.nationalgrideso.com/balancing-data/system-balancing-reports" target="_blank">https://www.nationalgrideso.com/balancing-data/system-balancing-reports</a> The addition published on 30 September 2019 contains the latest data on constraint payments made since NGESO was created on 1<sup>st</sup> April 2019, and the sections on ‘Constraint actions by fuel type’ and ‘Wind generation’ are most relevant. Detailed information on constraint payments to individual generation projects is published by Elexon, and is available at: <a href="https://www.bmreports.com/bmrs/?q=balancing/" target="_blank">https://www.bmreports.com/bmrs/?q=balancing/</a></p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng grouped question UIN 294225 question first answered 08/10/2019 14:03:35 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1151211

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2019
	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	Wind Power: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Scotland on support for onshore wind.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
	tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
	uin	900055
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>I regularly discuss a range of issues with my Right Honourable Friend the Member for Dumfries and Galloway – including our shared delight that through the recent Contracts for Difference round, Scotland will benefit from six new projects, providing 740MWs of renewable electricity capacity, paid for by consumers across the whole of Great Britain.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 22/10/2019 13:41:19 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

1148197

	registered interest
	date	03/10/2019
	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	Wind Power: Expenditure
	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 the average value of constraint payments made by National Grid Electricity Systems Operator (NGESO) was to (a) onshore and (b) offshore wind energy companies in each month since NGESO was created.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	294225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>National Grid Electricity System Operator (NGESO) publishes details of constraint payments by generation type in its ‘Monthly Balancing Services Summary’, which is available at: <a href="https://www.nationalgrideso.com/balancing-data/system-balancing-reports" target="_blank">https://www.nationalgrideso.com/balancing-data/system-balancing-reports</a> The addition published on 30 September 2019 contains the latest data on constraint payments made since NGESO was created on 1<sup>st</sup> April 2019, and the sections on ‘Constraint actions by fuel type’ and ‘Wind generation’ are most relevant. Detailed information on constraint payments to individual generation projects is published by Elexon, and is available at: <a href="https://www.bmreports.com/bmrs/?q=balancing/" target="_blank">https://www.bmreports.com/bmrs/?q=balancing/</a></p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng grouped question UIN 294224 question first answered 08/10/2019 14:03:35 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1149023

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	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	Wind Power
	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 proportion of blades on wind turbines are (a) recycled and (b) sent to landfill at the end of their lifespan.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	122
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information.</p><p> </p><p>Onshore windfarms are generally expected to decommission or repower from the mid 2020s onwards and offshore windfarms from the 2030s onwards.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 17/10/2019 14:41:04 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1142942

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	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	Wilton Power Station
	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 the (a) generation capacity and (b) estimated decommissioning date is of Wilton GT Natural Gas Power Station.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	284424
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng grouped question UIN 284370 284376 284382 284385 284392 284397 284404 284407 284413 284420 284447 284606 284608 284610 284613 284616 284618 284622 284626 284629 284633 284635 284638 284640 284644 284647 284650 284651 284654 284658 284672 284674 284675 284676 284679 284681 284683 284685 284694 284697 284700 284703 284705 284707 284715 284716 284718 284720 284903 284905 284909 284912 284917 284919 284921 284924 284927 284930 284933 284936 285348 285349 285350 285351 285352 285353 285354 285355 285356 285357 285358 285359 285360 question first answered 09/09/2019 16:22:52 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1145561

	registered interest
	date	24/09/2019
	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	Wilton Power Station
	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 the (a) generation capacity and (b) estimated decommissioning date is of Wilton GT Natural Gas Power Station.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	290415
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>Generation capacity information for GB can be located on the TEC Register on the National Grid ESO website at <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalgrideso.com%2Fdocument%2F149106%2Fdownload&amp;data=02%7C01%7CShamim.Choudhury%40beis.gov.uk%7Cb0ce89e6f28f418f7a3c08d73141cd7b%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637032030991952732&amp;sdata=A8FrzHurWMySTYT4zjecivZspgX5IZ6osF5KIGujfG0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.nationalgrideso.com/document/149106/download</a></p><p> </p><p>Generation capacity information for NI can be located in the annual All-Island Generation Capacity Statement produced by the Transmission System Operators for Ireland and Northern Ireland, the most recent of which can be found at <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eirgridgroup.com%2Fsite-files%2Flibrary%2FEirGrid%2FGeneration_Capacity_Statement_2018.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7CShamim.Choudhury%40beis.gov.uk%7Cb0ce89e6f28f418f7a3c08d73141cd7b%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637032030991962734&amp;sdata=MdDKvLyklDmG%2B%2FG3M4pnZCyq49Ufne%2FVpOdy%2B0%2Bjjts%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">http://www.eirgridgroup.com/site-files/library/EirGrid/Generation_Capacity_Statement_2018.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The Capacity Market provides an effective mechanism for bringing forward capacity in GB as and when it is needed. The Capacity Market registers (available at <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrdeliverybody.com%2FCM%2FRegisters.aspx&amp;data=02%7C01%7CShamim.Choudhury%40beis.gov.uk%7Cb0ce89e6f28f418f7a3c08d73141cd7b%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637032030991962734&amp;sdata=Hpo4fN%2B81MocmnaBo%2BIvIeY816tzELYb8cb6Hrgxyps%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.emrdeliverybody.com/CM/Registers.aspx</a>) provide a record of which capacity providers in GB have legal agreements requiring them to make their capacity available over coming years.</p><p> </p><p>Energy policy in Northern Ireland is largely a transferred (devolved) matter and a Capacity Market was introduced as part of the relaunched Single Electricity Market in October 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Decommissioning decisions are a commercial matter for the company concerned. Following consultation in November 2016 the Government confirmed its commitment to put an end to unabated coal power generation in GB from 2025.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng grouped question UIN 290403 290404 290405 290406 290407 290408 290409 290410 290411 290412 290413 290414 290416 290417 290418 290419 290420 290421 290422 question first answered 01/10/2019 15:27:48 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1143021

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	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	West Burton Power Station
	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 the (a) generation capacity and (b) decommissioning date is of West Burton Coal Power Station; and what plans are in place to replace that capacity when the power station is decommissioned.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	284606
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng grouped question UIN 284370 284376 284382 284385 284392 284397 284404 284407 284413 284420 284424 284447 284608 284610 284613 284616 284618 284622 284626 284629 284633 284635 284638 284640 284644 284647 284650 284651 284654 284658 284672 284674 284675 284676 284679 284681 284683 284685 284694 284697 284700 284703 284705 284707 284715 284716 284718 284720 284903 284905 284909 284912 284917 284919 284921 284924 284927 284930 284933 284936 285348 285349 285350 285351 285352 285353 285354 285355 285356 285357 285358 285359 285360 question first answered 09/09/2019 16:22:52 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown