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169468

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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: 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 recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on (a) its policy on the extraction of shale gas and (b) the recommendation in the Smith Commission Report to devolve shale gas mineral access rights to the Scottish Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
uin	218208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>DECC Ministers meet regularly with the Scottish Government to discuss a range of issues. As has been the case with successive administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/12/2014 15:37:03 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 33753 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson

169469

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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	Power Failures
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 the press release published by his Department on 8 January 2014, customer communications at heart of review into dealing with widespread power cuts, when he plans that the emergency telephone number which households can call if they experience a power cut will be operational.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	218238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>The Energy Networks Association leads on the establishment of a Single Emergency Number (SEN) for use during a power cut. The project is due for completion in April 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 15/12/2014 17:56:15 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

169470

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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	Power Failures
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 the press release published by his Department on 8 January 2014, customer communications at heart of review into dealing with widespread power cuts, what steps his Department has taken to establish an emergency telephone number which households can call if they experience a power cut.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	218239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>The Energy Networks Association (ENA) leads on the project to establish a Single Emergency Number (SEN). DECC officials are represented at both Project Board and task group level to oversee implementation. My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State met with the CEO of ENA recently and underlined the importance he attaches to the project.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 15/12/2014 17:55:48 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

169473

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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 Fuelled Power Stations
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 of the plant which has qualified for the first auction of the capacity market is fossil-fuel burning plant of less than 20MW capacity, given (a) in MW and (b) as a proportion of the total capacity qualifying for the auction.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	218063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>Fossil fuelled fired plant which has prequalified and confirmed its participation in the capacity auction and which is less than 20MW (on a de-rated capacity basis), totals around 1,950MW of de-rated capacity. This is about 3% of the total of 64,969MW of de-rated capacity which will participate in the auction.</p><p>The full list of capacity that has pre-qualified can be found on the National Grid website:</p><p><a href="https://www.emrdeliverybody.com/pages/Home.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f_layouts%2f15%2fAuthenticate.aspx%3fSource%3d%252F&amp;Source=%2F" target="_blank">https://www.emrdeliverybody.com/pages/Home.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f_layouts%2f15%2fAuthenticate.aspx%3fSource%3d%252F&amp;Source=%2F</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 15/12/2014 17:56:40 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

169474

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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: Billing
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 additional cost to electricity suppliers in the capacity market of carrying the liability for meeting the payments of a defaulting participant.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	218062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department has not made an estimate of the additional cost to suppliers of carrying the liability in the event of one participant defaulting. In the first instance each supplier is required to post credit cover which will be used to cover a missed payment. In the unlikely event a defaulted payment is mutualised across other suppliers, the actual amount would depend on the overall cost of the capacity market payments in that year, and the share of these costs due to be paid by the defaulting supplier. Electricity suppliers have been consulted on these arrangements.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 15/12/2014 17:57:21 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

169476

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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	Power Stations
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 Cost of New Entry, represented as £/MHh for (a) 800MW OCGT, (b) 800MW CCGT, (c) gas plant sub-20MW and (d) oil plant sub-20MW.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	218064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>DECC’s publishes estimates for the levelised costs of electricity generation for different technologies. The most recent £/MWh estimates are available in the DECC Electricity Generation Costs (December 2013) report, available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/269888/131217_Electricity_Generation_costs_report_December_2013_Final.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/269888/131217_Electricity_Generation_costs_report_December_2013_Final.pdf</a></p><p>Table 1 below is taken from this report, and shows the central levelised cost estimate for representative CCGT and OCGT plants commissioning in 2016. Estimates are not published for sub 20-MW gas plants or oil plants.</p><p>Table 1: Levelised cost estimates for CCGT and OCGT technologies, technology specific hurdle rates</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£/MWh</p><p>£2012</p></td><td><p>CCGT (gas) *</p></td><td><p>OCGT (gas) *</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Projects commissioning in 2016</p></td><td><p>77</p></td><td><p>169</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* CCGT: Combined Cycle Gas Turbine, OCGT: Open Cycle Gas Turbine</p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that updated cost input assumptions for the range of CCGT and OCGT costs are provided in a Coal and Gas Assumptions report by Parsons Brinkerhoff commissioned by DECC (March 2014). This is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/315717/coal_and_gas_assumptions.PDF" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/315717/coal_and_gas_assumptions.PDF</a></p><p>The levelised cost of a particular generation technology is the ratio of the total costs of a generic plant to the total amount of electricity expected to be generated over the plant’s lifetime (per megawatt hour). Levelised cost estimates are highly sensitive to the assumptions used for capital costs, fuel and EU ETS allowance prices, operating costs, load factor, discount rate and other drivers and this means that there is significant uncertainty around these estimates.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/12/2014 15:41:26 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 33757 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

169477

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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, if he will estimate the expenditure made to date by the developers of offshore wind projects which have received consent under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 which he expects to be unsuccessful in the contracts for difference process.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
uin	218228
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>The National Grid, as the Electricity Market Reform Delivery Body, are currently assessing applications for Contracts for Difference under the first Contract for Difference allocation round. Under the strictures of the process the Department does not know, at this point of time, information about individual applications, numbers of applications or numbers that have qualified. As a result the Department is unable to speculate on any applications for offshore wind projects likely to be unsuccessful in the contracts for difference process under our Electricity Market Reform project. In addition, any unsuccessful applicants, should there be any, would have the opportunity to apply for support in future rounds.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 15/12/2014 17:57:53 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

168917

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
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
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 estimate he has made of the level of the UK's surplus energy (a) generation and (b) storage capacity; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	217792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>During the winter I assess the levels of energy generation and storage capacity on a weekly basis. This week we were expecting to have between 11 and 12GW of spare electricity generating capacity and our gas storage started the week at over 90% full. I will reassess the levels of both next week.</p><p>A further 1.1GW of electricity generating capacity has been procured by National Grid for the Winter of 2014/15 that can be relied upon when we need it, in order to help us comfortably meet Reliability Standards that have been previously set. This consists of keeping otherwise mothballed or closed plant in reserve and a small amount of voluntary electricity demand reduction by large energy users.</p><p> </p><p>More widely, we have undertaken extensive assessments of the levels of gas storage available to the UK market and published the results of that very detailed work in September 2013: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/236757/DECC_FI_Final_report_09072013.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/236757/DECC_FI_Final_report_09072013.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The overall conclusion of this assessment was that intervention in the gas storage market was not desirable.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/12/2014 15:38:34 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

168562

registered interest
date	08/12/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	New Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many small businesses have been started in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and (c) Barnsley in each year since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	217724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The estimated number of business start-ups in a) England, b) Yorkshire and the Humber, c) Barnsley between 2010 and 2014 are shown in the table below. These statistics are compiled from BankSearch data, which does not report on the size of start-ups.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Estimated number of business start-ups (2010 to 2014)</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>Barnsley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>433,300</p></td><td><p>33,780</p></td><td><p>1,190</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>458,020</p></td><td><p>34,410</p></td><td><p>1,150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>440,400</p></td><td><p>33,310</p></td><td><p>1,120</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>398,860</p></td><td><p>29,630</p></td><td><p>1,050</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: BankSearch: number of new business bank accounts opened. All figures rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/12/2014 16:27:30 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 33056 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

168564

registered interest
date	08/12/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Defence and Security Organisation: Secondment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, in which posts staff of UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Organisation are on secondment from industry; from which company each such person was seconded; and what the start and end date of each such secondment is.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	217666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Post</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Company</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Start Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>End date</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>International Cyber Director</p></td><td><p>BAES Applied Intelligence</p></td><td><p>2 September 2013</p></td><td><p>31 March 2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Typhoon Campaign Coordinator</p></td><td><p>BAE Systems</p></td><td><p>27 January 2014</p></td><td><p>31 December 2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Joint Export Management Team Member</p></td><td><p>MBDA UK Limited</p></td><td><p>10 February 2014</p></td><td><p>26 February 2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Protocol Officer</p></td><td><p>BAE Systems</p></td><td><p>8 September 2014</p></td><td><p>6 March 2015</p><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/12/2014 14:19:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn