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443239

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date	07/01/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Offshore Fixed Structures: North Sea
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will investigate the circumstances surrounding the leak of natural gas at the Brae Alpha platform of 26 December 2015; and what steps he plans to take to ensure that a similar incident does not occur on that platform or any other offshore installation.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	21562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is investigating the circumstances of the leak of natural gas from the Brae Alpha platform on 26th December 2015. It will ensure any lessons to be learnt to prevent a recurrence are shared with the operators of this and other platforms in the sector. If necessary it can use its formal enforcement powers to address significant shortcomings in systems and arrangements to manage risks.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/01/2016 13:20:45 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

443240

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
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	Offshore Fixed Structures: North Sea
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions her Department has had with the operators of the Brae Alpha platform following the gas leak on 26 December 2015 that resulted in the shutdown of that platform.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	21561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p>The incident on 26 December 2015 was a safety-related incident at an offshore oil and gas installation, the regulation of which falls within the Health and Safety Executive’s statutory remit under the Offshore Safety Directive.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 13/01/2016 15:46:47 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

443241

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
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	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, what discussions she has had with the oil and gas industry on the relationship between maintaining safety standards and reducing the cost of production.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	21560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2016 answer text <p>The regulation of the safety of offshore oil and gas installations in external waters is a matter for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), working as part of the Offshore Safety Directive Regulator partnership. DECC and the Oil and Gas Authority are in regular contact with the industry and HSE regarding a range of offshore infrastructure issues, including the relationship between maintaining safety standards and reducing the cost of production. Together, we aim to ensure that industry resources are directed to maximising safe, sustainable production.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/01/2016 12:03:02 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

443339

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Health and Safety Executive on ensuring reductions in operators' production costs do not adversely affect the safety of offshore workers in the oil and gas industry.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	21548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>I have had discussions with Health and Safety Executive (HSE) officials on the range of factors affecting offshore safety. HSE has confirmed that it is placing increasing emphasis upon maintenance standards as part of its interventions at offshore installations. I support this approach.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/01/2016 13:02:57 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

442304

registered interest
date	04/01/2016
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	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 assessment her Department has made of whether the policies outlined in her speech at the Institution of Civil Engineers on 18 November 2015 will ensure the UK meets the fourth Carbon Budget.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	20813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2016 answer text <p>My Rt. hon Friend,the Secretary of State announced in November, this Government is committed to taking pragmatic action to meet the fourth carbon budget whilst ensuring that energy is secure and bills remain low. Measures announced in her speech - including the intention to replace unabated coal with new gas, nuclear and renewables; increased competition; concerted action on heat; and support for innovation – are all in line with this commitment.</p><p>Our new emissions reduction plan will be published towards the end of 2016 and will set out our proposals in full.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/01/2016 16:11:33 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

442305

registered interest
date	04/01/2016
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: Policy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether an impact assessment has been carried out by her Department on the policies outlined in her speech at the Institution of Civil Engineers on 18 November 2015.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	20812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2016 answer text <p>The speech contained a number of policy proposals which are at different stages of implementation. Some measures which are close to delivery have already had assessments published, such as the changes to the Renewables Obligation and Feed-in Tariff to ensure bill payers get value for money. Where appropriate impact assessments for other proposals, such as the consultation to close unabated coal-fired power stations, will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/01/2016 16:09:45 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

438821

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Development Aid: Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of the international aid budget she plans to allocate to support communities managing the consequences of climate change in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	902759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The Prime Minister has announced that the government will provide £5.8 billion from the official development assistance budget over the next five years. This will support the Paris Climate Summit outcome and help the most vulnerable countries protect themselves from the effects of climate change and drive clean economic growth.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 16/12/2015 13:45:24 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

434215

registered interest
date	04/12/2015
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	Carbon Capture and Storage: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, to what purposes the ring-fenced capital budget for the carbon capture and storage competition has been reallocated.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	18832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government set out its capital budget and priorities for this Spending Review period on 25 November 2015.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 10/12/2015 13:37:57 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 34703 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

434216

registered interest
date	04/12/2015
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: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assumptions her Department relied on to produce the information on expenditure on Contracts for Difference in respect of each eligible technology that it provided to inform the Office for Budget Responsibility assessment of the Levy Control Framework.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	18820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department takes into account a number of factors to project Levy Control Framework (LCF) spending in relation to Contracts for Difference (CfD) contracts, including capacity for each individual project, strike prices, wholesale electricity prices, load factors and commissioning dates. Some of the CfD predictions that fed into the Office for Budget Responsibility November LCF forecasts are already in the public domain, such as strike prices for signed CfD contracts which are available on the LCCC website. Some predictions are based on commercial intelligence and sensitive information from the developers which we cannot disclose.</p><p><br></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 15/12/2015 15:28:19 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

434217

registered interest
date	04/12/2015
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: Heating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what forecast her Department has made of the level of potential underspend on the (a) domestic and (b) non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive in 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	18821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) does not operate under separate budgets for the domestic and non-domestic schemes. For 2015/16 it has a single budget limit of £430m for both schemes combined. This is a spending limit, not a central forecast; and the scheme is not deemed to have ‘underspent’ if expenditure is below that limit. The central spend forecast for 2015/16 that was set out at the time the £430m budget limit was agreed (as part of the 2013 Spending Round) was £365m.</p><br /><p>DECC does not regularly publish forecast expenditure for financial years; instead publishing monthly data on ‘committed expenditure’ – the estimated costs of supporting all plants applied to the scheme for a rolling 12-month cycle.</p><br /><p>However, as part of the 2015 Comprehensive Spending Review, the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) have published a forecast of £420m for 15/16:</p><br /><p><a href="http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/supplementary-forecast-information/" target="_blank">http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/supplementary-forecast-information/</a>.</p><br /><p>This is still subject to considerable uncertainty, as the scheme is largely paid on metered heat; and so final expenditure will be determined by the level of heat generation this winter, as well as rates of new applications.</p><br /> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/12/2015 17:10:00 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig