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456450

registered interest
date	01/03/2016
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 Stations: Israel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assistance has been (a) asked for and (b) provided to Israel to assist in (i) emergency planning in the event of a radiological incident and (ii) radioactive waste management at the Dimona nuclear plant in Israel.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	29280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department of Energy and Climate Change has not received any requests from, or provided assistance to, Israel on either emergency planning in the event of a radiological incident, or radioactive waste management at the Dimona nuclear plant.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 04/03/2016 13:31:50 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

456466

registered interest
date	01/03/2016
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 Supply
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 of gigawatts of diesel generating capacity the National Grid has on standby for demand spikes; whether her Department is planning for more diesel generation to be so available; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	29325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>National Grid currently has approximately 0.6GW of diesel generation contracted in Short Term Operating Reserve – STOR - the key balancing service used to manage fluctuations in demand.</p><p> </p><p>STOR is procured by National Grid and Government is not involved in this process. However, Government is aware of concerns regarding the growth of diesel generators, and with this in mind Defra will consult later this year on options which will include legislation that would set binding emission limit values on relevant air pollutants from diesel engines.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 04/03/2016 13:32:24 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

456467

registered interest
date	01/03/2016
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	Coal Fired Power Stations: Germany
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 holds on the number of coal-fired powered stations which have been built in Germany since 2010; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	29191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department commissioned an independent study[1] published in April 2013 looking at new coal-fired power stations in Germany. This study found 10 coal plants (a total of 8GW) were under construction at the time and would be ready to be commissioned by 2015.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/194335/Poyry_Report_-_Coal_fired_power_generation_in_Germany.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/194335/Poyry_Report_-_Coal_fired_power_generation_in_Germany.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 04/03/2016 13:36:37 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

456597

registered interest
date	01/03/2016
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	Wood-burning Stoves: 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 steps she is taking to reduce carbon emissions from wood stoves.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	29108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>Directive 2009/125/EC established a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for energy-related products. In April 2015 Commission Regulation 2015/1185 was published, which provides minimum standards for efficiencies of wood burning stoves placed on the European market from 2022 that will reduce their carbon emissions.</p><p> </p><p>Wood burning stoves that have a back boiler attached are supported through the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). The scheme applies only to Great Britain.</p><p> </p><p>Wood burning stoves are treated as having zero emissions for most inventory purposes, given that the biomass combustion releases the carbon captured during the trees’ lifetime; and that this loss of carbon from the forest is already recorded in the forestry section of the emissions inventory.</p><p> </p><p>Different carbon emissions figures are used for lifecycle analysis of biomass – but these often relate to the transportation of the fuel and fuel preparation. Evidence to date suggests the fuel used in wood burning stoves, such as logs, is frequently sourced very locally with minimal preparation, and therefore has a relatively small footprint.</p><p> </p><p>A tool is also available from Ofgem for calculating carbon emissions from biomass. It can be found on the Ofgem website at <a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/uk-solid-and-gaseous-biomass-carbon-calculator" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/uk-solid-and-gaseous-biomass-carbon-calculator</a> .</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 04/03/2016 15:00:43 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

456109

registered interest
date	29/02/2016
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	Electricity Generation: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans her Department has to differentiate between different types of less-established technologies in the next Contracts for Difference allocation round.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	28927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>As we did in the first CFD allocation round, we will use an auction to differentiate between the projects in the less established technologies pot. We keep the technologies eligible for each pot under review to make sure that our decarbonisation and affordability objectives are met.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 04/03/2016 13:38:43 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

456110

registered interest
date	29/02/2016
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	Tidal 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 assessment her Department has made of the relative costs of tidal lagoon projects compared to other forms of tidal power technology.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	28928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government’s extensive Severn Tidal Power feasibility study and the recent work as part of the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon Contract for Difference negotiations show that costs for tidal lagoons may be broadly comparable to other tidal range technologies. However, the detailed relative costs of projects will be dependent on their geographical location, individual design and financing models.</p><p> </p><p>We have not made any comparative assessment of costs with tidal stream technologies, which are at a very early stage of development and have a highly different asset-life to tidal range.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 03/03/2016 15:58:39 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

456111

registered interest
date	29/02/2016
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	Tidal 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 plans her Department has to consider the potential of other tidal energy technologies as part of its review of tidal lagoon technology.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	28929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2016 answer text <p>The independent review, which Government announced on 10 February, will focus exclusively on tidal lagoons. It will not extend to other forms of tidal technology such as barrages or tidal stream arrays.</p><p>In October 2010, the Department published the results of the <em>Severn Tidal Power: Feasibility Study</em>. The review concluded it did not see a strategic case for public investment in a tidal barrage in the Severn estuary, but the outcome of the feasibility study did not preclude a privately financed scheme. This conclusion still stands</p><p> </p><p>Tidal stream technologies operate on a fundamentally different basis to tidal lagoons. It would not, therefore be appropriate to include them within the scope of the review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 03/03/2016 15:55:59 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

456112

registered interest
date	29/02/2016
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	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 total annual payments were made for renewable heat under the renewable heat incentive (RHI) in (a) 2012-13, (b) 2013-14, (c) 2014-15 and (d) 2015-16 to date; and how such payments compared to the RHI budget estimates for each such year.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Danny Kinahan
uin	28973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2016 answer text <p>Figures for payments made under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) are published in our annual accounts, which are available through DECC’s website at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/decc-annual-reports-and-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/decc-annual-reports-and-accounts</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Available figures for the years requested are attached.</p><p> </p><p>Payment figures for 2015/16 are not available yet; but we will publish these in our 2015/16 accounts, which we expect to publish in July this year. The budget figure for 2015/16 is £430m.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 03/03/2016 15:52:40 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom attachment 1 file name Figures for payments made under the Renewable Heat Incentive.pdf title Figures for payments made under the RHI
tabling member	4381 label Biography information for Danny Kinahan

455721

registered interest
date	26/02/2016
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	Fuel Poverty: Children
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 she is taking to reduce the number of children living in fuel poverty.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	28723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>We are investing close to £1 billion a year to help consumers through a reformed supplier obligation and Warm Home Discount, and plan to reform both schemes to focus that funding better on those that need it most.</p><p> </p><p>Our ability to do that is strengthened significantly by the introduction of an improved definition of fuel poverty which captures those in genuine need who are facing the overlapping problem of a low household income and high energy costs.</p><p> </p><p>This low income high costs indicator has meant a change in the demographic of who is considered to be fuel poor in England - with homes with at least one child now accounting for nearly half of the fuel poor population.</p><p> </p><p>We will be consulting on our proposals to reform the supplier obligation and the Warm Home Discount later this year.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 02/03/2016 16:19:40 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

455301

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
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	Department for Energy and Climate Change: Publications
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 (a) publications, (b) consultation documents and (c) circulars her Department has issued since August 2012; and what the title was of each such publication, consultation document or circular.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	28671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>DECC migrated to gov.uk in Jan 2013. Archives of the old DECC website (<a href="http://www.decc.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.decc.gov.uk</a>) are available from the National Archives:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/*/http:/www.decc.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/*/http://www.decc.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>From Jan 2013 to date, DECC published a total of 2513 publications and 181 consultations.</p><p> </p><p>Some consultations from before Jan 2013 are included on gov.uk, as the responses to these consultations were published after the Jan 2013 migration. It has not been possible to identify every single piece of material requested due to the migration to the new Gov.UK system in January 2013, and the disproportionate cost involved.</p><p> </p><p>A complete list of all DECC publications can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=&amp;publication_filter_option=all&amp;topics%5B%5D=all&amp;departments%5B%5D=department-of-energy-climate-change&amp;official_document_status=all&amp;world_locations%5B%5D=all&amp;from_date=01%2F01%2F2013&amp;to_date=&amp;commit=Refresh+results" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=&amp;publication_filter_option=all&amp;topics%5B%5D=all&amp;departments%5B%5D=department-of-energy-climate-change&amp;official_document_status=all&amp;world_locations%5B%5D=all&amp;from_date=01%2F01%2F2013&amp;to_date=&amp;commit=Refresh+results</a>.</p><p> </p><p>DECC publishes a regular email newsletter (DECC Review) to stakeholders. This has been published 47 times since 1 August 2012.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 29/02/2016 14:55:43 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth