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386955

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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	Fossil Fuels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will initiate an inquiry into the relationship between the price of petrol and the cost of oil.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	5045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>Movements in pump prices are primarily driven by the underlying price of crude oil, though are also influenced by a range of other supply and demand factors, including refining capacity, stock levels, distribution costs, retail margins and seasonal demand variations.</p><p>DECC analysis suggests that on average, at a national level, crude price changes are fully passed through into pump prices within 6-7 weeks; though much of the change is passed through earlier.</p><p>The Government is absolutely clear that it expects changes in crude prices to be passed on fairly to consumers. DECC continuously monitors pump prices, and publish average prices of petrol and diesel every Monday, available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-petroleum-products-weekly-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-petroleum-products-weekly-statistics</a>.</p><p>Movements in pump prices are primarily driven by the underlying price of crude oil, though are also influenced by a range of other supply and demand factors, including refining capacity, stock levels, distribution costs, retail margins and seasonal demand variations.</p><p>DECC analysis suggests that on average, at a national level, crude price changes are fully passed through into pump prices within 6-7 weeks; though much of the change is passed through earlier.</p><p>The Government is absolutely clear that it expects changes in crude prices to be passed on fairly to consumers. DECC continuously monitors pump prices, and publish average prices of petrol and diesel every Monday, available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-petroleum-products-weekly-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-petroleum-products-weekly-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/07/2015 13:00:41 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 11562 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

387021

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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	Heat Pumps: 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, how many installations of (a) solar thermal, (b) ground source heat pumps, (c) biomass and (d) air source heat pumps took place under the domestic Renewable Heat Incentive in 2014-15; and what forecasts her Department had made of the number of such installations in that period.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	5117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department publishes monthly statistics for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), which are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/renewable-heat-incentive-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/renewable-heat-incentive-statistics</a>. Table 2.9 has figures relevant to this question.</p><p>The following figures are from April 2014 to May 2015, and show the number of installations accredited under the domestic RHI:</p><p>a) Solar thermal - 6,372</p><p>b) Ground-source heat pumps - 4,684</p><p>c) Biomass - 8,547</p><p>d) Air-source heat pumps - 15,021</p><p>In December 2013, DECC published an assessment of the total installations of renewable heating measures in 2015/16. Deployment was expected to be between 21,350 and 44,930.</p><p>Further details are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263581/Impact_Assessment_RHI_Tariff_Review_Extensions_and_Budget_Management_Dec_2013.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263581/Impact_Assessment_RHI_Tariff_Review_Extensions_and_Budget_Management_Dec_2013.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/07/2015 13:10:30 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

387022

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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: Scotland
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 her Department is taking to develop the offshore wind industry in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	5158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK is open for business.</p><p>The UK is a leading destination for investment in offshore wind.</p><p>We have put in place a long term policy framework that gives certainty to developers to invest in offshore windfarms. Neart na Gaoithe, a project off the coast of Scotland, was awarded a Contract for Difference (CFD) in the first allocation round.</p><p>Officials are working with this Developer on the implementation of their Supply Chain Plan and to boost UK content.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/07/2015 13:11:31 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

387024

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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	Electricity Generation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether she plans to hold the next round of Contract for Difference auctions before the end of 2015.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	5160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>We will be confirming our plans for future CFD allocation rounds in due course. The CFD scheme will be the primary instrument for ensuring cost effective decarbonisation of the power sector and we recognise the need to give industry more visibility of our approach.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/07/2015 13:12:19 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

387026

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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	Department of Energy and Climate Change: Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, to which periodicals and newspapers her Department subscribes; how many copies of each such periodical her Department acquires; and what the cost of subscribing to such periodicals was in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	5248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department of Energy and Climate Change purchases the following newspapers each week:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Title</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Quantity</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Mail (M-F)</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Express (M-F)</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Mirror (M-F)</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Star (M-F)</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Telegraph (M-F)</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Times (M-F)</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Guardian (M-F)</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Independent (M-F)</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Sun (M-F)</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Times (M-F)</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Mail (Sat)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Express (Sat)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Mirror (Sat)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Star (Sat)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Telegraph (Sat)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Guardian (Sat)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Sun (Sat)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Independent (Sat)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Times (Sat)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FT Weekend</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunday Mirror</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Observer</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Sun on Sunday</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunday People</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunday Express</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Independent on Sunday</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Mail on Sunday</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Sunday Times</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Weekly Total</strong></p></td><td><p>143</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The total amount spent on newspapers for Financial Year 2014-15 was £10,664.25 (including VAT).</p><p>There are no central records of periodical subscriptions and associated spend.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/07/2015 09:16:24 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

387027

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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: 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 assessment she has made of the potential effect on jobs and the supply chain of the closure of the Renewables Obligation for onshore wind.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	5242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>There were an estimated 19,000 people employed in the onshore wind sector in 2013, including in the supply chain.[1] We currently have enough projects in the pipeline to meet our 2020 renewable electricity objective of between 11-13GW of onshore wind capacity while remaining within the limits of what is affordable. This pipeline of projects will deliver new jobs across the UK.</p><p>[1] <em>The Size and Performance of the UK Low Carbon Economy: Report for 2010 to 2013</em> (March 2013): <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/416240/bis-15-206-size-and-performance-of-uk-low-carbon-economy.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/416240/bis-15-206-size-and-performance-of-uk-low-carbon-economy.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/07/2015 13:14:50 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

387033

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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	Oil: South East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, over what timeframe she plans to issue licences for the extraction of oil deposits under Sussex and Surrey.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	5074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>Applications made for onshore licences under the 14<sup>th</sup> Onshore Licensing Round are currently under consideration. The next step will be the publication of a consultation on the Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) under the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010 and the Oil and Gas Authority aims to announce awards later in the year.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 06/07/2015 15:04:30 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

386608

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much the Government has spent in each renewable energy sector in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	4982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK continues to make progress on renewable energy in electricity, heat and transport. The cost of policies over the last five years (2009/10-2013/14) averaged at £2,396m per annum (see table 1 below).</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Table 1: Policy costs by sector over time (£m)*</em></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Sector </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009/10</strong></p></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></tr><tr><td><p>Electricity**</p></td><td><p>£1,120</p></td><td><p>£1,300</p></td><td><p>£1,609</p></td><td><p>£2,498</p></td><td><p>£3,290</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Heat</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p>£2</p></td><td><p>£27</p></td><td><p>£52</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Transport</p></td><td><p>£352</p></td><td><p>£453</p></td><td><p>£538</p></td><td><p>£345</p></td><td><p>£398</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£1,471</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£1,752</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£2,148</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£2,869</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£3,740</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><em>*in millions of nominal GBP. Discrepancies due to rounding.</em></p><p><em>**this information is publicly available – sources are set out below. Figures for 14/15 not available yet. There was no spend between 2009/10 to 2013/14 on Contracts for Difference.</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This information was taken from publicly available sources: for electricity, by multiplying ‘total obligation (ROCs) and ‘buy-out’ price (£ per ROC) for the Renewables Obligation spend:</p><p> </p><ul><li><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-buy-out-fund-2013-14" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-buy-out-fund-2013-14</a>;</li><li><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/docs/2013/10/buy-out_fund_redistribution_12-13.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/docs/2013/10/buy-out_fund_redistribution_12-13.pdf</a>;</li><li><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-buy-out-fund-2011-12" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-buy-out-fund-2011-12</a>;</li><li><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-late-payment-fund-2010-2011" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-late-payment-fund-2010-2011</a>;</li><li><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-annual-report-2009-2010" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-annual-report-2009-2010</a>;</li><li>Directly from each annual report for Feed-in-Tariffs spend:</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-programmes/feed-tariff-fit-scheme/feed-tariff-reports/annual-reports" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-programmes/feed-tariff-fit-scheme/feed-tariff-reports/annual-reports</a>;</p><ul><li>For heat, directly from: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014</a>;</li><li>For transport, adjusted using the GDP deflator:</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-transport-fuel-obligation-annual-report-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-transport-fuel-obligation-annual-report-2013-to-2014</a>;</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/307437/impact-assessment-pir.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/307437/impact-assessment-pir.pdf</a>;</li><li>http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/method-quality/specific/economy/national-accounts/changes-to-national-accounts/index.html.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/07/2015 13:08:24 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

386609

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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: Income
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what information her Department has received from the six largest energy companies on the level of their earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation from electricity (a) generation and (b) supply in (i) 2014 and (ii) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	4752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information pertaining to the earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of energy generation assets other than material already in the public domain.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/07/2015 12:55:36 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

386610

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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	Electricity Generation: Competition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will place in the Library the unredacted version of the Competition Market Authority report, Analysis of generation profitability, published on 25 February 2015.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	4753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is an independent body. The Government does not have access to the commercially confidential information that market participants have provided to the CMA as part of the investigation into energy markets. It is a matter for the CMA to determine what information is put into the public domain.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 06/07/2015 15:05:43 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan