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170382

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what new representations he has received on licensing regulations for fracking; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	218597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2015 answer text <p>We have reviewed no new representations on licensing regulations for onshore oil and gas.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 07/01/2015 16:21:52 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

170383

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
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	Written Questions
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 savings to his Department from the Q&A system in the (a) 12 months and (b) five years since 4 June 2014; what additional ICT systems or improvements to existing systems his Department has introduced or plans to introduce that would not have been feasible without the Q&A system; and what assessment he has made of the extent to which the system has made it easier to answer questions from hon. Members on time.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	218779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>No formal estimate of saving has been done since the Q&amp;A systems inception earlier this year. The main saving to the Department is in its annual contract for receiving the daily TSO feed of parliamentary questions at a cost of £5,000 pa. Other less tangible savings include administrative costs relating to the daily deliver of questions to the House by departmental staff, photocopying, envelopes etc. These savings will also apply with the introduction of the new Written Ministerial Statement System.</p><p>The introduction of the Q&amp;A system has not resulted in any changes to our current IT systems and it is not envisaged that changes will be made in the future unless there are upgrades to the Q&amp;A system that allow us to circulate questions within the department from the system itself.</p><p>One of the benefits of the new system is the possibility for the reporting of the timeliness of answers to Parliamentary Questions to be delivered with greater consistency and accuracy across all answering bodies.</p><p>It will be for the Procedure Committee to evaluate the effectiveness of the new system in improving performance when it assesses the evidence following the end of the session.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 05/01/2015 15:18:19 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

170125

registered interest
date	12/12/2014
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: Noise
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether his Department plans to issue an invitation to tender for the research required for its review of wind turbine noise; and what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that that review will be independent.
tabling member constituency	Daventry
tabling member printed	Chris Heaton-Harris
uin	218571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>DECC intends to appoint acoustics experts to review the evidence on wind turbine amplitude modulation (AM), with a view to providing advice on how appropriate AM thresholds might be set in planning conditions. DECC officials are preparing an Invitation to Tender currently and expect to issue it in the New Year and to appoint a contractor as soon as we are able following the conclusion of the tendering exercise. Copies of the correspondence between my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State and the President of the IOA are available on DECC’s website:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/increasing-the-use-of-low-carbon-technologies/supporting-pages/onshore-wind" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/increasing-the-use-of-low-carbon-technologies/supporting-pages/onshore-wind</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 218569 218570 question first answered 06/01/2015 15:21:45 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris

170126

registered interest
date	12/12/2014
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: Noise
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 publish the full terms of reference of his Department's review of wind turbine noise.
tabling member constituency	Daventry
tabling member printed	Chris Heaton-Harris
uin	218569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>DECC intends to appoint acoustics experts to review the evidence on wind turbine amplitude modulation (AM), with a view to providing advice on how appropriate AM thresholds might be set in planning conditions. DECC officials are preparing an Invitation to Tender currently and expect to issue it in the New Year and to appoint a contractor as soon as we are able following the conclusion of the tendering exercise. Copies of the correspondence between my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State and the President of the IOA are available on DECC’s website:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/increasing-the-use-of-low-carbon-technologies/supporting-pages/onshore-wind" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/increasing-the-use-of-low-carbon-technologies/supporting-pages/onshore-wind</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 218570 218571 question first answered 06/01/2015 15:21:45 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris

170127

registered interest
date	12/12/2014
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: Noise
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 publish correspondence between his Department and the Institute of Acoustics relating to his Department's review of wind turbine noise.
tabling member constituency	Daventry
tabling member printed	Chris Heaton-Harris
uin	218570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>DECC intends to appoint acoustics experts to review the evidence on wind turbine amplitude modulation (AM), with a view to providing advice on how appropriate AM thresholds might be set in planning conditions. DECC officials are preparing an Invitation to Tender currently and expect to issue it in the New Year and to appoint a contractor as soon as we are able following the conclusion of the tendering exercise. Copies of the correspondence between my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State and the President of the IOA are available on DECC’s website:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/increasing-the-use-of-low-carbon-technologies/supporting-pages/onshore-wind" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/increasing-the-use-of-low-carbon-technologies/supporting-pages/onshore-wind</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 218569 218571 question first answered 06/01/2015 15:21:46 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris

169749

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	Fuels: 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 assessment he has made of the effect of recent changes in the global price of oil on domestic fuel prices.
tabling member constituency	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
tabling member printed	Jonathan Edwards
uin	218366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>Movements in pump prices are largely driven by crude oil prices and reduction in fuel duty. In January 2013, the Office for Fair Trading published the results of a Call for Information to investigate whether or not competition problems existed in the road fuels market.</p><p>The Government believes that it is important that consumers get a fair deal and that falls in oil prices materialise into lower prices for motorists. We wrote to major fuel retailers on 7 November seeking reassurance that they were fully passing on changes in the oil price to UK consumers at pumps in full and as quickly as possible.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 17/12/2014 15:56:09 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3943 label Biography information for Jonathan Edwards

169814

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	Travel
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 his Department has spent on (a) taxis, (b) first class train tickets and (c) business class air travel in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	218473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The expenditure is set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong><em>2010-11</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2011-12</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2012-13</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2013-14</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2014-15 </em></strong></p><p><strong><em>(first 6 months)</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>£(k)</p></td><td><p>£(k)</p></td><td><p>£(k)</p></td><td><p>£(k)</p></td><td><p>£(k)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>Taxis</em></strong></p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>First class train tickets</em></strong></p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>Business class air travel</em></strong></p></td><td><p>321</p></td><td><p>215</p></td><td><p>167</p></td><td><p>156</p></td><td><p>149</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 17/12/2014 16:02:16 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

169815

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	Staff
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 staff are employed in his Department's headquarter buildings.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	218306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>As of 30 November 2014 there were 1,441 civil servants working the Department of Energy &amp; Climate Change headquarter buildings in London. There were also 102 civil servants working in its Aberdeen building.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 16/12/2014 15:33:25 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

169816

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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: Meters
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 (a) number of prepayment meter customers who self-disconnected at least once in each year since 2010 and (b) total number of prepayment meter customers in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	218286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on the number of pre-payment meter customers who self-disconnected.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 17/12/2014 16:02:45 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

169817

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	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 estimate his Department has made of how many households in receipt of the warm home discount have requested to have it redeemed against their gas bill.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	218273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>It is important that a scheme on the scale of the Warm Home Discount – which provides help to over 2 million households annually – can be easily and cost-effectively delivered. The current approach ensures this is the case. Having different delivery mechanisms under the scheme, for example to allow some customers to redeem their rebate against their gas bills, would increase the cost of the scheme to consumers.</p><p>Data for the number of households who have requested to have their Warm Home Discount rebates redeemed against their gas bill is not available.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd grouped question UIN 218274 question first answered 17/12/2014 16:03:28 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint