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418116

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	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	Biofuels: Carbon Emissions
	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 her Department has made of the effectiveness of biomass energy crops in delivering carbon reductions as set out in the UK Bioenergy Strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	9776
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>The 2013/14 Renewables Obligation sustainability data [1] indicate that, for data available, the average greenhouse gas saving from energy crops on the European Union fossil fuel electricity average, by consignment, was approximately 90% (within a range of 85-94%). Feedstock data will begin being collected for Renewable Heat Incentive from the beginning of October, but energy crops are expected to make up a small proportion of heat biomass feedstock.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As recommended in the Bioenergy Strategy, this year the UK government is introducing mandatory sustainability criteria for biomass supported under the Renewables Obligation and the Renewable Heat Incentive. This will ensure that bioenergy feedstock is from sustainable land types, and that feedstock must meet a minimum 60% greenhouse gas saving on the EU fossil fuel electricity average. These requirements apply to energy crops.</p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/biomass-sustainability-dataset-2013-14" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/biomass-sustainability-dataset-2013-14</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 15/09/2015 16:40:19 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 21296 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

418118

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	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: Subsidies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of subsidies paid to the (a) solar and (b) wind power industries in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	9682
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>Solar and wind have received support over the past five years from the Renewables Obligation (RO) and the Feed-in Tariff (FITs) schemes. The cost of the schemes is reclaimed from electricity consumers, not from general taxation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The cost of supporting solar and wind through the RO in 2010/11 to 2014/15 was as follows (figures not adjusted for inflation):</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </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><strong>Onshore wind</strong></p></td><td><p>£398m</p></td><td><p>£483m</p></td><td><p>£557m</p></td><td><p>£756m</p></td><td><p>£787m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Offshore wind</strong></p></td><td><p>£254m</p></td><td><p>£371m</p></td><td><p>£699m</p></td><td><p>£989m</p></td><td><p>£1,108m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Solar PV</strong></p></td><td><p>£0.2m</p></td><td><p>£0.1m</p></td><td><p>£0.9m</p></td><td><p>£35m</p></td><td><p>£134m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Solar and some small-scale onshore wind are also supported by the FIT, but FIT costs are not available disaggregated by technology. Total support under FiT in 2013/14 (the latest year for which data are available) was £691m.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 15/09/2015 16:42:45 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 21293 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

418119

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	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	Biofuels: Subsidies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate her Department has made of the total subsidy paid for biomass production for the purposes of power generation in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	9683
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>The previous government supported the Energy Crop Scheme which provided a five year subsidy support for farmers and landowners producing biomass for electricity and heat production. This scheme, which provided support for planting and developing new energy crops, closed on 31<sup>st</sup> August 2013 to new applicants but continues to support those still in the scheme. The payments in the last five years were estimated by Natural England to be:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>2010 – £425,942</li><li>2011 – £594,698</li><li>2012 – £1,320,813</li><li>2013 – £427,198</li><li>2014 – £330,438</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Natural England, who run the scheme, estimate that 80% of the energy crops planted under the scheme will eventually be harvested for power generation, the remainder being for heat generation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 15/09/2015 16:42:13 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 21294 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

418120

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	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	Biofuels: Imports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate her Department has made of the value of biomass imported for the purposes of power generation in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	9775
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>DECC holds data, obtained from HMRC, on the imports of fuel wood products, including: wood, wood pellets, wood chips, sawdust and wood waste. The vast majority of wood pellets are used for the purpose of electricity generation in large biomass plants. However, this may not be the case for other fuel wood products. This is summarised in the table below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Value of imports (£million)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wood pellets</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p>129</p></td><td><p>185</p></td><td><p>412</p></td><td><p>545</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other fuel wood products (wood, wood chips, sawdust, wood waste)</p></td><td> </td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All fuel wood products</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p>138</p></td><td><p>195</p></td><td><p>425</p></td><td><p>560</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 15/09/2015 16:41:28 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 21295 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

424016

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2015
	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	Solar Power
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment her Department has made of the ability of the UK solar industry to meet service demand; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	13428
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text <p>As set out in the November 2013 Renewable Energy Roadmap Update, analysis indicated a potential deployment range of 7-20 GW (equivalent to 6-18 TWh) of solar PV at all scales, with 20GW being our estimate of the technical maximum level of solar PV deployment by 2020 on the basis of grid and other constraints. Solar PV in the UK was 8.007GW as of August 2015<sup>1</sup>.</p><br /><p>In the absence of cost effective storage, solar PV can make a contribution to meeting electricity demand but this will be limited by the nature of its diurnal cycle.</p><br /><p><em>REF:</em></p><ol><li><em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solar-pv-deployment-august-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solar-pv-deployment-august-2015</a></em></li></ol> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 30/10/2015 13:35:30 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 26585 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

425094

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2015
	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	Solar Power
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate her Department has made of the likely proportion of total UK energy production which will be solar energy in each of the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	14235
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>In August, DECC published projections for UK solar electricity capacity by 2020/21:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/457313/Estimated_capacity_of_selected_renewable_technologies_in_2020-21.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/457313/Estimated_capacity_of_selected_renewable_technologies_in_2020-21.pdf</a></p><br /><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/458662/IA_for_FITs_consultation_August_2015_-_FINAL_docx__e-signature_included__v2.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/458662/IA_for_FITs_consultation_August_2015_-_FINAL_docx__e-signature_included__v2.pdf</a>.</p><br /><p>This projected that, as of August 2015, UK solar electricity capacity would be 9.55GW by 2020/21, which would be 9.1TWh of generation, or 2.8% of UK electricity generation. The projections as of August 2015 for each of the next five years as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td></td><td><p><strong>Solar PV as a proportion of total UK electricity generation – August 2015 projection</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2.8%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>These estimates include assumptions about policy changes which have been proposed but not yet finalised and which could therefore change subject to the responses received – in particular, the consultation on a review of the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) scheme and the consultation on changes to financial support for solar PV under the Renewables Obligation.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 05/11/2015 15:30:55 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 27861 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

425676

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2015
	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	Fracking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of the proportion of total UK energy production likely to be sourced from fracking in each of the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	14575
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government is of the view that there is a national need to explore and test our shale resources in a safe, sustainable and timely way.</p><br /><p>It is too early to make an assessment of the future extent of shale gas and oil production. We do not yet know the full scale of the UK’s shale resources nor how much can be extracted technically or economically.</p><br /> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 10/11/2015 15:46:27 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 28302 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

433197

	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	Energy: Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate her Department has made of the average per kwh cost of energy in each of the next five years; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	18231
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2015 answer text <p>Energy price assumptions underpinning DECC’s 2015 Energy and Emissions Projections are available in Annex M of the supporting documentation available online.1 The table includes wholesale coal, crude oil, electricity, and natural gas price assumptions, and retail electricity, natural gas, and petroleum product price assumptions for a range of sectors. Assumptions are available out to 2035, and for a range of scenarios.</p><br /><p>The Government is implementing a package of measures to reduce the projected cost of policies on the average household dual fuel bill by £30 from 2017. The bulk of these savings will come from reforms to the current Energy Company Obligation, which will be replaced by a new cheaper supplier obligation from April 2017. The new scheme will deliver on the government’s commitment to help 1 million homes see lower energy bills through energy efficiency improvements by the end of this parliament. The government is committed to ensuring that energy is affordable for families and businesses.</p><br /><p><em><strong>[1]</strong></em><em> Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/updated-energy-and-emissions-projections-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/updated-energy-and-emissions-projections-2015</a>. </em></p><br /> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 04/12/2015 12:50:49 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 33680 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

533362

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2016
	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	Energy: Imports
	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 4 July 2016 to Question 41418, whether she plans to start making projections of the cost of energy imports by the UK; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	42023
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department of Energy and Climate Change does not currently have plans to produce projections of the cost of energy imports by the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The government is committed to making sure consumers have secure, affordable and clean energy. Keeping the cost of energy imports low will be important in helping achieve this goal.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/07/2016 16:50:54 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 6575 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

223216

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	North West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost was to his Department of the visits and press conferences for the (a) long term economic plans for Yorkshire and (b) long term economic plan for the north-west events.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	225243
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p><strong>The total cost for the Long Term Economic Plan visit to Yorkshire and the North-West was met through the existing departmental budgets.</strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 26/03/2015 14:37:51 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham