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registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what bids her Department received for the carbon capture and storage technology completion which the Government is no longer funding.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	18629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>The CCS Competition opened in April 2012, with bids invited by July 2012. Eight bids were submitted: North East Oxyfuel Project, Peterhead CCS, Teesside Low Carbon, White Rose (Capture Power), Captain Clean Energy Limited, Don Valley CCS, National Grid Humber Cluster and National Grid Teesside Cluster. Four full chain projects were shortlisted in October 2012. On 14 January 2013, shortlisted bidders submitted revised proposals and later that year the Government announced two preferred bidders, Capture Power Ltd’ White Rose Project and Shell’s Peterhead Project, who were later awarded contracts to undertake Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) studies. Captain Clean Energy and Teesside Low Carbon, the remaining two shortlisted bidders, were appointed as reserve projects until such time as FEED contracts were signed.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 10/12/2015 12:24:51 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 34432 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

433793

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
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: Foreign Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which energy companies have received public funding for renewable contracts and have contracted supply chain work to overseas companies.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	18517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>Energy companies accredited under the Renewables Obligation are recorded in Ofgem’s Renewables and CHP register:</p><p><a href="https://www.renewablesandchp.ofgem.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.renewablesandchp.ofgem.gov.uk/</a>.</p><br /><p>Whilst the award of supply chain contracts is a matter of commercial negotiation for the companies in question, UK content in the supply chain is important to this Government, and my Department takes steps to maximise it. For example, DECC, together with UKTI and BIS, works closely with each offshore wind farm developer to ensure that UK companies are able to bid for contracts in an open and fair competition process.</p><br /><p><ins class="ministerial">Offshore Wind Developers have committed to achieving their vision statement of providing over 50% UK content in UK offshore wind farms. There is an agreed industry standard methodology in place for the Industry to measure and record the UK content in each offshore wind farm. The industry publishes the anonymised and consolidated results to allow the sector and the public to track the sector’s progress towards fulfilling their vision.</ins></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/12/2015 15:50:47 question first ministerially corrected 14/12/2015 15:07:26 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 34622 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

433197

registered interest
date	30/11/2015
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	Energy: 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 estimate her Department has made of the average per kwh cost of energy in each of the next five years; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	18231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2015 answer text <p>Energy price assumptions underpinning DECC’s 2015 Energy and Emissions Projections are available in Annex M of the supporting documentation available online.1 The table includes wholesale coal, crude oil, electricity, and natural gas price assumptions, and retail electricity, natural gas, and petroleum product price assumptions for a range of sectors. Assumptions are available out to 2035, and for a range of scenarios.</p><br /><p>The Government is implementing a package of measures to reduce the projected cost of policies on the average household dual fuel bill by £30 from 2017. The bulk of these savings will come from reforms to the current Energy Company Obligation, which will be replaced by a new cheaper supplier obligation from April 2017. The new scheme will deliver on the government’s commitment to help 1 million homes see lower energy bills through energy efficiency improvements by the end of this parliament. The government is committed to ensuring that energy is affordable for families and businesses.</p><br /><p><em><strong>[1]</strong></em><em> Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/updated-energy-and-emissions-projections-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/updated-energy-and-emissions-projections-2015</a>. </em></p><br /> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 04/12/2015 12:50:49 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 33680 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

432774

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
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	Energy: Tax Allowances
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 representations she has received from community energy companies on removal of their entitlement to social investment tax relief.
tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
uin	17806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2015 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change has not received any direct representations from community energy companies on removal of their entitlement to social investment tax relief, however this is an HM Treasury policy lead.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Further to my previous answer, my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change has now received a small number of representations from community energy companies on removal of their entitlement to social investment tax relief. These have been transferred to HM Treasury as the policy lead on this matter.</ins></p><p><br /></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 02/12/2015 10:09:04 question first ministerially corrected 08/12/2015 16:37:58 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 33172 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

432264

registered interest
date	25/11/2015
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	Energy: Compensation
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 she has made of the value of compensation given for delayed switches in the energy market in the last 12 months for which records are available.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	17649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>Each supplier is responsible for managing complaints about delayed switches. Suppliers must have in place a process for handling complaints, including those concerning delayed switches. This process includes a requirement to explain to the customer the remedies available, including compensation and remedial action.</p><br /><p>Ofgem will take enforcement action against suppliers who unjustifiably block customers switching to a new supplier and can instruct suppliers to pay compensation to customers who lose out financially.</p><p><br> <br></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 01/12/2015 13:19:56 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 32731 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

431957

registered interest
date	24/11/2015
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	Warm Home Discount 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 her policy is on the future of the Warm Home scheme; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	17532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government announced in the Spending Review on 25 November 2015 that the Warm Home Discount scheme would be extended to 2020/21 at current levels of £320m per year, rising with inflation, to help households who are at risk of fuel poverty with their energy bills.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 01/12/2015 13:18:22 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 32730 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

431962

registered interest
date	24/11/2015
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	National Grid: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when the decision was made to connect the monitoring and control of the National Grid to the internet; and what risk analysis was undertaken prior to that decision being made.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	17424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>Cyber security is one of the Government’s top national security priorities. Whilst National Grid is a private company, DECC is working with them on cyber security, as well as broader issues of security and resilience. We are also working with other industry partners, government departments and agencies, to ensure that the risks to the energy sector are understood and that appropriate mitigations are established.</p><p>National Grid has provided the following additional information:</p><p>“National Grid’s Information Security programme has, among other steps, advocated a defence in depth strategy by instituting rigid network segmentation and isolation between our business and SCADA [Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition] systems. Further, National Grid policy does not allow for direct connection between external networks and SCADA systems.”</p><p><br></p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 01/12/2015 13:17:12 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 32729 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

428662

registered interest
date	17/11/2015
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	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, what estimate she has made of the effect that the offshore wind industry has on stimulating investment in the north of England.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	16627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>Recent major investments in the north of England include Siemens and APB’s investment in Hull, Offshore Structure Britain in Teesside and JDR Cables in Hartlepool. There has also been significant investment in operations and maintenance facilities. These investments are helping to deliver high quality and long term jobs to the region.</p><p><br></p><br /> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 25/11/2015 14:37:22 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 31297 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

428667

registered interest
date	17/11/2015
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	Department of Energy and Climate Change: Cost Effectiveness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what cost savings her Department is planning to make in the current financial year.
tabling member constituency	Wellingborough
tabling member printed	Mr Peter Bone
uin	16559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>Spending Round 2013 set the Department’s budget for 2015-16, including efficiency savings. Details can be found via the link below.</p><br /><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/209036/spending-round-2013-complete.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/209036/spending-round-2013-complete.pdf</a></p><br /><p>Subsequently, on 4<sup>th</sup> June 2015, the Government announced further efficiency savings to be delivered in 2015-16. DECC’s contribution to that exercise was to find an addition £70M of efficiency savings.</p><p><br></p><br /> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 23/11/2015 15:21:08 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 31295 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1581 label Biography information for Mr Peter Bone

428780

registered interest
date	17/11/2015
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	Hinkley Point C Power Station: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether the agreement signed with China to fund Hinckley Point C nuclear reactor includes funding from China for (a) decommissioning costs and (b) emergency clean-up costs.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Dr Tania Mathias
uin	16727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>The basis on which Chinese companies will invest in the Hinkley Point C project is set out in the strategic investor agreement agreed between EDF and CGN in October. The terms of this agreement are a matter for EDF.</p><br /><p>Operators of new nuclear power stations are required to have a Funded Decommissioning Programme (FDP) approved by the Secretary of State before nuclear related construction can begin. The FDP sets out how a new nuclear operator will make secure financial provision for decommissioning their power station and managing and disposing of its waste without recourse to the taxpayer.</p><br /><p>Operators of nuclear power stations are also required to put in place insurance or other financial security to meet their nuclear third party liabilities.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 24/11/2015 17:22:28 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 31301 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4404 label Biography information for Dr Tania Mathias