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77816

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date	14/07/2014
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	EU Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Verma on 9 July (WA 46) concerning the European Union Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council, whether they will replicate the Commission's webpage or give a summary of it for the benefit of those without internet access.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL1113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>A copy of the text of the Council Conclusions on energy prices and costs, protection of vulnerable consumers and competitiveness – as adopted by Ministers at the European Union Energy Council of 13 June and set out on the European Commission’s website – will be placed in the Libraries of the House.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 22/07/2014 12:16:00 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

77819

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
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	Nuclear Power Stations
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what national security considerations they take into account when awarding contracts for the provision of nuclear-generated electricity in the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL1116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government does not award contracts for the provision of nuclear generated electricity as this is a matter for the private markets. We welcome investment and Britain is open for business.</p><p>Nuclear site licensees and those constructing nuclear facilities are required to meet a number of stringent security requirements including in the areas of physical security, guarding and personal vetting, which the independent Office for Nuclear Regulation monitors and enforces.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 22/07/2014 14:40:43 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

77282

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps are currently in place, and what steps they intend to take, to address health and safety issues associated with the use of wind turbines.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL1016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>Wind generators, in the same way as all other industries, are covered by the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HSWA). This requires them as duty holders to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of their employees and any members of the public who may be affected by their activities.</p><p>There are also well-established British and European standards covering product safety. The HSE performs appropriate regulatory checks on the operation and maintenance of wind turbines and also commissions research as needed. An HSE-commissioned report on risk assessment in the vicinity of wind turbines was published in 2013 and can be viewed online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr968.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr968.pdf</a>.</p><p>Offshore wind developers are working together, through the G9 group, to seek solutions to safety challenges to working offshore. More information can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.g9offshorewind.com/about-the-g9" target="_blank">http://www.g9offshorewind.com/about-the-g9</a>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 22/07/2014 13:07:13 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

77283

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the current success rate of planning applications for wind turbines and wind farms; and what were the comparable figures in each of the last five calendar years.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL1017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>The Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) tracks the progress of all projects over 0.01MW from submission of a planning application through to determination and generation:</p><p><a href="https://restats.decc.gov.uk/app/reporting/decc/monthlyextract" target="_blank">https://restats.decc.gov.uk/app/reporting/decc/monthlyextract</a></p><p>The table below sets out the number and percentage of onshore wind installations, as well as the combined capacity of those installations, which are recorded on the REPD as having been approved or refused planning permission, on a year-by-year basis, since January 2009. These numbers are accurate as of the end of May 2014:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Number of planning applications</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Capacity (MW)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Approved</p></td><td><p>Refused</p></td><td><p>Approved</p></td><td><p>Refused</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>105 (73%)</p></td><td><p>38 (27%)</p></td><td><p>1183 (68%)</p></td><td><p>558 (32%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>119 (75%)</p></td><td><p>40 (25%)</p></td><td><p>1249 (66%)</p></td><td><p>644 (34%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>138 (71%)</p></td><td><p>57 (29%)</p></td><td><p>964 (67%)</p></td><td><p>483 (33%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>275 (71%)</p></td><td><p>111 (29%)</p></td><td><p>2252 (76%)</p></td><td><p>727 (24%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20113</p></td><td><p>438 (59%)</p></td><td><p>303 (41%)</p></td><td><p>1422 (47%)</p></td><td><p>1603 (53%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan- May 2014</p></td><td><p>86 (40%)</p></td><td><p>128 (60%)</p></td><td><p>594 (47%)</p></td><td><p>663 (53%)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 22/07/2014 13:06:05 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

77300

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Satellites
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the potential value to knowledge of climate change and its impacts, of more accurate measurements of the Earth that could come from the proposed Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial-and-Helio-Studies satellite mission.
tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Finsbury
uin	HL1034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>The possible benefits from the proposed Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial-and-Helio-Studies (TRUTHS) satellite mission were the subject of a challenge workshop hosted in 2013 by the UK Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation and Space Technology (CEOI-ST), which is funded by the UK Space Agency.</p><p>The outputs of the CEOI-ST investigation are currently being considered by the UK Space Agency.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 22/07/2014 14:46:38 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	186 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Finsbury