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166552

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
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	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, what the total value was of bids received during the first established technologies Contracts for Difference auction for (a) landfill gas, (b) onshore wind, (c) solar photovoltaic, (d) hydro, (e) energy from waste and (f) sewage gas.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	216323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>This information is not held by the Department. National Grid is the Delivery Body for the allocation of Contracts for Difference. Regulations limit the information released to the Department during and after the allocation process, for example because it is commercially confidential or where its release could undermine the efficiency of the auction process.</p><p>We intend to provide information on those applicants who are successful and sign contracts when the allocation process concludes next year. Information which will be made available includes the technology type, capacity, delivery year and strike price of successful projects.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/12/2014 15:14:05 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 31209 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

155880

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
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	Coke
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 his Department has made of the role, of coke in supplying the future energy needs of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	214808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>The Digest of UK Energy Statistics presents statistics on the supply and demand of coke and coking coal in the UK. In 2013, total demand for coke was around 4.5 million tonnes of which 83% was produced domestically1.</p><p><em><strong>[1]</strong></em><em> DUKES, Chapter 2 – Solid fuels and derived gases:</em></p><p> </p><p><em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/337589/chapter_2.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/337589/chapter_2.pdf</a></em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 25/11/2014 14:42:57 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 29083 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

101635

registered interest
date	29/10/2014
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 Fuels: Licensing
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 bids were received in the 14th licensing round for onshore oil and gas.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	212485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The 14<sup>th</sup> Onshore Oil and Gas Licensing Round closed for applications on the 28<sup>th</sup> October 2014, and we have received 95 applications covering in total 295 blocks. (A block for these purposes is a 10x10 km area.) Some blocks were applied for by more than one applicant.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/11/2014 15:49:37 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 25893 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

101636

registered interest
date	29/10/2014
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 Fuels: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when he intends to announce the awarding of licences arising from the 14th Onshore Oil and Gas Licensing round.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	212486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The assessment of the applications received is in hand, but it is too early to say how soon the necessary work can be completed. We hope to be able to announce licence offers in the early part of 2015.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/11/2014 15:47:31 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 25891 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

100698

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
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	Opencast Mining: Ayrshire
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 about the re-instatement of former opencast coal sites in East Ayrshire.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
uin	211771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>This is not an issue my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State has discussed directly with Scottish Government Ministers, but he would intend to do so once other ongoing matters around the coal industry have been resolved.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 28/10/2014 17:45:54 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 24888 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

100153

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
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	Hinkley Point C Power Station
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 he has made of the overall cost to the consumer in 2014 prices of the contract for difference for Hinkley Point C over its 35 year lifetime.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	211349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>We have not made an estimate of the overall cost to the consumer in 2014 prices as the CPI index for the full year is not yet available.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 27/10/2014 14:58:06 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 24220 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

100157

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
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: Prices
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 he has made of the likely total allocation from the levy control framework for (a) feed in tariffs, (b) renewables obligations and (c) projects agreed under the final investment decision-enabling process in each year from 2015 to 2021.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	211400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The projected allocation from the levy control framework for feed in tariffs, the renewables obligation and projects agreed under the final investment decision-enabling process in financial years from 2015/16 to 2020/21 <del class="ministerial">will be</del> <ins class="ministerial">is expected to be</ins> published in an annex (‘DECC’s Consumer Funded Policies – a report to Parliament’) to the Annual Energy Statement.</p><p>Publication of the Annual Energy Statement is expected in Autumn 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 24/10/2014 13:35:38 question first ministerially corrected 28/10/2014 16:37:54 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 24144 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

99812

registered interest
date	20/10/2014
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: Prices
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 he has made of the schemes in the Levy Control Framework on average annual household energy bills in each of the years from 2015 to 2021.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Jonathan Lord
uin	211114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The projected expenditure from schemes under the Levy Control Framework for the financial years from 2015/16 to 2020/21 <del class="ministerial">will be</del> <ins class="ministerial">is expected to be</ins> published as an annex (‘DECC’s Consumer Funded Policies – a report to Parliament’) to the Annual Energy Statement. Publication of the Annual Energy Statement is expected in Autumn 2014.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 24/10/2014 13:32:43 question first ministerially corrected 28/10/2014 16:33:04 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 24105 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

93174

registered interest
date	14/10/2014
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	Hinkley Point C Power Station
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what compensation mechanisms are in place for EDF in the event that the Government closes Hinkley Point C for reasons other than safety or immediate environmental reasons.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	210539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>If a final contract is signed, it is expected that the investors in Hinkley Point C would, subject to conditions, receive compensation in the event of a political shut down of the plant other than for reasons including health, nuclear safety, security, environmental reasons, nuclear transport or nuclear safeguards. These arrangements would be supported by an agreement between my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State and the Hinkley Point C investors.</p><p>The exact details of the compensation mechanisms are to be agreed between the Government and EDF, but the principle would be that investors are compensated for their losses directly as a result of the decision to shut them down.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 20/10/2014 13:23:04 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 22795 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

92863

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
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	Hunterston B Power Station
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 make an assessment of the danger to the public as a result of cracks in the graphite of a reactor at Hunterston B nuclear power station, North Ayrshire; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Iain McKenzie
uin	210076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2014 answer text <p>Assessing the safety of nuclear stations is a matter for nuclear sites and the independent nuclear regulator, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR).</p><p>Under the terms of its licence, a licensee is required to produce a safety case to demonstrate the continued safe operation of its reactors to the satisfaction of ONR. The licensee at Hunterston B, EDF Energy Nuclear Generation Ltd, notified ONR of the cracking of two graphite bricks in the core of Hunterston B (Reactor 4) on 21 August 2014. The type of cracking identified is termed ‘keyway root cracking’ and it has been considered by the licensee in its safety case. ONR’s technical experts confirmed that the cracks identified were well within the safe limits of operation set within the safety case and that they do not pose an increased risk to the public. On this basis, ONR was satisfied with the licensee’s justification for the return to service of Reactor 4 at Hunterston B and issued a Consent to restart Reactor 4 on the 29<sup>th </sup>September 2014.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 14/11/2014 12:11:58 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 22367 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4246 label Biography information for Iain McKenzie