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176077

registered interest
date	27/01/2015
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	Employment Agencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many staff in his Department were recruited through employment or recruitment agencies in each year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	222250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department of Energy &amp; Climate Change (DECC) has used employment or recruitment agencies to procure contingent workers, as set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong><em>Period </em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>No. of people</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Apr 10 - Mar 11</em></p></td><td><p>108</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Apr 11 - Mar 12</em></p></td><td><p>172</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Apr 12 - Mar 13</em></p></td><td><p>178</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Apr 13 - Mar 14</em></p></td><td><p>151</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Apr 14 - Dec 14</em></p></td><td><p>76</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Contingent workers include Agency Temps, Contractors etc. but exclude civil servants on permanent or temporary/short term contracts.</p><p>The dates shown are the dates in which the contingent worker first commenced a period of work in DECC.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 29/01/2015 16:57:31 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

176082

registered interest
date	27/01/2015
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	Housing: Insulation
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 he has made of the number of houses that have been insulated in each year since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	222341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of retro-fit installations of cavity wall insulation, loft insulation and solid wall insulation through Government schemes since the beginning of April 2010. It does not cover measures installed outside of Government schemes or as part of the construction of the property. Figures covering installations up to the end of December 2014 will be published on 19 March 2015.</p><p> </p><p><em>Table 1: Installations of cavity wall, loft and solid wall insulation through Government schemes in Great Britain, by year, 1 April 2010 to 30 September 2014</em></p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p>Thousands</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><em>Cavity wall insulation</em></p></td><td><p><em>Loft insulation</em></p></td><td><p><em>Solid wall insulation</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>April 2010 to March 2011</em></strong></p></td><td><p>470</p></td><td><p>980</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>April 2011 to March 2012</em></strong></p></td><td><p>520</p></td><td><p>1,130</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>April 2012 to March 2013</em></strong></p></td><td><p>480</p></td><td><p>1,290</p></td><td><p>73</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>April 2013 to March 2014</em></strong></p></td><td><p>260</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>52</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>April 2014 to September 2014</em></strong></p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>Total</em></strong></p></td><td><p>1,800</p></td><td><p>3,560</p></td><td><p>183</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: Green Deal, Energy Company Obligation (ECO) and Insulation Levels in Great Britain, Quarterly Report: to September 2014. Cavity wall and loft insulation figures rounded to nearest ten thousand.</em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 03/02/2015 16:16:34 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd previous answer version 42451 answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

175698

registered interest
date	26/01/2015
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	Employment Agencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many recruitment and employment agencies his Department has used to source staff in each year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	222083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>Until July 2012, DECC utilised the non-permanent framework for interim workers which had 21 suppliers. For agency workers DECC utilised the non-medical non-clinical framework which has 143 suppliers. DECC calls off these but does not hold central records of how many individual agencies on these frameworks have been used.</p><p>From August 2012, interim workers have been procured through the Contingent Labour 1 framework, which is a neutral vendor framework managed by Capita Business Services.</p><p>Since April 2012, from which date central records were kept, nine recruitment agencies have been used for recruitment services for DECC employees.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 29/01/2015 17:03:54 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

175243

registered interest
date	22/01/2015
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 Heat Incentive Scheme
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 12 January 2015 to Question 219697, if he will revise calculations of value for money delivered by the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive to take account of falling fossil fuel energy prices.
tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
uin	221795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2015 answer text <p>The RHI policy has been designed to provide renewable heat, which contributes towards the UK’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED) target, in the most cost effective way. As such, we calculate value for money for the scheme in units of pence per kilowatt hour (p/kWh) of support, and look at comparative costs of producing renewable energy from other renewable sources.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 28/01/2015 11:18:16 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer

175052

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
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 Heat Incentive Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will take steps to ensure that both (a) Combined Heat and Power facilities where biogas production and combustion take place on the same site and (b) facilities that also produce biogas on the same site, but which generate their power from a combination of that biogas and some other energy source, receive equal treatment under the Government's proposal to amend the Renewable Heat Incentive Regulations.
tabling member constituency	Torridge and West Devon
tabling member printed	Mr Geoffrey Cox
uin	221585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>Heat produced from Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plants may be eligible for renewable heat incentive scheme payments under the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme Regulations 2011 (as amended) (“the Non-domestic Scheme”), where the fuel is biomass (including solid biomass contained in waste), biogas or geothermal energy, either in isolation or in combination. Decisions on whether or not individual installations meet the requirements of the Non-domestic Scheme are determined by Ofgem.</p><p>The draft Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Amendments) Regulations 2015, which are currently before Parliament for approval, make proposed amendments to the Non-domestic Scheme which are intended to introduce greater flexibility for CHP generators to use a mixture of fuels if each combustion unit burns a single fuel type. Generators are paid under the Non-domestic RHI Scheme based on the amount of eligible renewable heat used for eligible purposes.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 27/01/2015 15:36:01 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	1508 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Cox

174676

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
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	Housing: Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will discuss with his counterparts in the devolved administrations the merits of a common formula for the Warm Home discount and grant schemes across all those administrations.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	221330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2015 answer text <p>The Warm Home Discount Scheme operates to a single set of rules across Great Britain.</p><p>The scheme does not apply in Northern Ireland as fuel poverty is devolved to the Northern Ireland Executive, which decides its own fuel poverty objectives and policies.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 23/01/2015 13:26:19 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

174720

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
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 Heat Incentive Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions he has had with Ofgem on its change of interpretation of the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme Regulations 2011, as amended by the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2014, in respect of the definition of plant in relation to the eligibility criteria set out in Regulations 9, 11 and 12.
tabling member constituency	Torridge and West Devon
tabling member printed	Mr Geoffrey Cox
uin	221296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>Ofgem’s interpretation of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) regulations is set out in its RHI Guidance Volumes 1 and 2.</p><p>This guidance was last revised in August 2014 and includes updated guidance on Ofgem’s interpretation of regulations 9, 11 and 12.</p><p>Ofgem’s definition of plant varies by technology. Regulation 11 refers to biogas plant. For biogas installations, Ofgem’s interpretation of the definition of plant did not change as a result of the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2014.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 27/01/2015 15:34:09 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	1508 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Cox

174723

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
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	Warm Home Discount Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, on what date his Department plans to publish its response to the Warm Homes Discount: Extension to the 2015-16 consultation.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	221318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2015 answer text <p>The draft Regulations relating to the extension of the Warm Home Discount to 2015/16 were laid in Parliament on 12<sup>th</sup> January. We intend to publish the consultation response later this month.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 23/01/2015 13:27:38 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

174393

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
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	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
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 value and proportion of the UK content of each completed UK offshore wind farm is.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Ian Swales
uin	221257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not require Developers to submit to it the value and proportion of the UK content for each completed UK offshore wind farm. However, many Developers already report on the UK content of their wind farms and it is a priority for Government to support the development of a UK-based supply chain for offshore wind and to increase the UK content of wind farms.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 27/01/2015 15:32:11 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4045 label Biography information for Ian Swales

174394

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
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	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
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 his Department has made of the value and proportion of UK content of the forthcoming Race Bank offshore windfarm.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Ian Swales
uin	221256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not estimate the value and proportion of UK content of individual offshore windfarms.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 27/01/2015 15:31:45 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4045 label Biography information for Ian Swales