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date	11/03/2015
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: Yorkshire and the Humber
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) applications have been received for licences and (b) licences have been issued for fracking in (i) York, (ii) North Yorkshire and (iii) Yorkshire and the Humber since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Sir Hugh Bayley
uin	227313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>A Petroleum Exploration and Development Licence (PEDL) is a pre-requisite before any oil and gas operations, including fracking, can take place. No new PEDLs have been issued since 2008. DECC cannot comment on applications made in the current, 14<sup>th</sup>, Onshore Oil &amp; Gas Licensing Round, the results of which we expect to announce later this year.</p><p>All operations require planning permission, access agreement with relevant landowner(s), Environment Agency permits, HSE scrutiny, and DECC consent before they can commence. Within an existing PEDL, an application which included plans to frac in North Yorkshire was consented to by DECC in 2012 but, due to changes to the operator’s plans, the activity was not carried out.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/03/2015 14:58:08 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

226679

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to his Department's publication Estimated impacts of energy and climate change policy on energy prices and bills, published in November 2014, what provision has been made in that document for likely costs of (a) additional generating capacity related to the intermittency of renewables, (b) additional transmission lines to link wind and other renewable generators to centres of consumption and (c) other measures to strengthen the grid to dial with intermittency.
tabling member constituency	Hitchin and Harpenden
tabling member printed	Mr Peter Lilley
uin	227176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>DECC’s modelling of the electricity sector takes into account the expected contribution of intermittent renewables to meeting peak demand when assessing how much capacity must be procured under the Capacity Mechanism to maintain system security. The costs of the Capacity Mechanism are included in the aforementioned published analysis.</p><p>As also set out in the report, estimated network bill impacts are based on network operators’ revenue allowances under Ofgem’s price controls for electricity distribution (RIIO-ED1) and electricity transmission (RIIO-T1), and on offshore revenue projections estimated by National Grid’s TNUoS model that was built for DECC’s Electricity Market Reform Delivery Plan.[1] Projections used in DECC’s report are adjusted to reflect DECC modelling of capacity uptake.</p><p>The RIIO-T1 Final Determinations [2] show that for electricity transmission, the main driver for expenditure is increasingly to connect new generation (about two thirds of the planned investment to 2021). Not all of this will be associated with low-carbon generation and, in the absence of low-carbon generation, there would be costs to connect further conventional generation instead.</p><p><em><strong>[1]</strong></em><em> <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/267614/Annex_D_-_National_Grid_EMR_Report.pdf" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/267614/Annex_D_-_National_Grid_EMR_Report.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/267614/Annex_D_-_National_Grid_EMR_Report.pdf</a>.</em></p><p><em> [</em><em>2] </em><em><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ofgem-publications/53599/1riiot1fpoverviewdec12.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ofgem-publications/53599/1riiot1fpoverviewdec12.pdf</a>.</em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/03/2015 14:57:04 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	68 label Biography information for Lord Lilley