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registered interest
date	01/03/2016
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	Imports: China
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what progress her Department has made on bringing about an EU suspension of the Minimum Import Price of solar Chinese solar modules pending the European Commission review of EU trade measures on Chinese solar manufacturea.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
uin	29124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2016 answer text <p>The EU launched an Expiry Review in December 2015 into the Minimum Import Price on solar panels entering the EU from China. We expect the investigation is expected to run until at least December 2016.</p><p>My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change wrote to Commissioner Malmström in November 2015 to argue that the wider costs of the Minimum Import Price should be fully taken into account in the Expiry Review of the anti-dumping measures, given the benefits to the UK and EU of lower solar panel prices.</p><p>The Government will continue to engage with the Commission and do whatever we can to promote UK interests.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/03/2016 13:16:13 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

178966

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
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	Fracking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how strict the standard of independent monitoring of shale gas fracking will be; and who will undertake that monitoring.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	223916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p>The Environment Agency (EA) is the regulator for onshore gas operations in England. It requires operators to obtain environmental permits which contain conditions that ensure risks are properly managed and will not allow companies to start work unless they can demonstrate how they will provide a high level of protection for people and the environment. The EA will monitor compliance with permits and take enforcement action if it believes permit conditions have been breached.</p><p>The EA undertakes inspections based on its assessment of the risks presented by a particular site. Often the site operator is responsible for environmental monitoring, which the EA then examines to ensure that they are abiding by their permit conditions. In some cases, depending on the risks presented by a site, the EA may undertake extra monitoring itself.</p><p>The environmental permits require operators to monitor the emissions from their activities and assess their environmental impact. They do this in order to demonstrate to the EA that pollution is minimised and to comply with the limits specified in their permit. The monitoring must be carried out to recognised standards by competent personnel. The EA recommends that operators do this through its Monitoring Certification Scheme (MCERTS). Operators can choose to use an alternative certified monitoring standard, as long as it is equivalent to the MCERTS standard.</p><p>MCERTS is the Environment Agency’s Monitoring Certification Scheme. It provides the framework for businesses to meet EA’s quality requirements. If operators comply with MCERTS, the EA can have confidence in the monitoring of emissions to the environment.</p><p>The EA will adopt a compliance assessment plan for each site that sets out how it will measure the operator’s compliance and ensure that environmental risks are properly managed. This may include a variety of methods such as audit, site inspections, check monitoring, sampling, and reviewing operator records and procedures.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, DECC officials are currently developing further measures to provide independent evidence directly to the public about the robustness of the existing regulatory regime, as announced in the Autumn Statement.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 25/02/2015 13:04:07 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

178317

registered interest
date	06/02/2015
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	Fossil Fuels: Exploration
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 inspection process is for onshore gas and oil exploration.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	223714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>Onshore oil and gas exploration must be approved by the relevant environmental agency and the Health and Safety Executive and pass through the planning system. Consent from DECC is also required before drilling activities can commence.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 10:06:03 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

178121

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
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	Fracking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which body will maintain and regulate the seismic activities of companies fracking at depth for shale gas and intervene in the event of 0.5 on the Richter scale being reached.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	223604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department of Energy and Climate Change will maintain and regulate controls to mitigate risks of seismic activity, including requiring developers to submit a Hydraulic Fracturing Plan providing for a traffic light system.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 09:56:05 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

178122

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
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	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 representations he has received on self monitoring by fracking companies for shale gas; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	223682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department has received representations about self-monitoring from various parties, including members of the public, NGOs and a Minerals Planning Authority.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 09:50:58 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

178123

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
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	Fracking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which regulator regulates the activities of all regulators for fracking activities.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	223603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>Each regulator is accountable to parliament as an agency or public body and we aim not to duplicate those mechanisms.</p><p>DECC has the policy lead. It works closely with regulators and industry to ensure that regulation is as efficient as possible whilst remaining robust to safeguard public safety and protect the environment.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 09:53:01 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

178124

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
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	Fracking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if his Department will exercise the precautionary principle for each application for a licence to frack hydraulically for shale gas.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	223683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The licences do not give permission for any operation, including hydraulic fracturing. I can confirm that we will require a hydraulic fracturing plan to be submitted for any fracturing of shale, which must be approved by DECC before the fracturing operations commence. We have one of the most robust regulatory systems in the world for shale gas, including a traffic light system to measure seismic activity to allow operations to be suspended if activity is detected above a defined level.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 13:21:04 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

178125

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
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	Fracking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether monitoring of potential fugitive methane emissions will continue for 30 years after the exploration for fracking has finished.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	223681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>The Environment Agency will make a case by case assessment of monitoring requirements. There is provision in the environmental permit for an operation involving hydraulic fracturing to require monitoring indefinitely post closure of a well. The Environment Agency will not allow surrender of the permit unless it is satisfied that the well has been decommissioned in line with standards set by the Health and Safety Executive, the site has been returned to a satisfactory condition and there is no significant on-going risk to the environment.</p><p>The recent Infrastructure Act 2015 makes clear that any hydraulic fracturing activity cannot take place unless appropriate arrangements have been made for monitoring emissions of methane into the air. During operations the operator will be required to undertake environmental monitoring, including emissions monitoring, to demonstrate compliance with their permits. In some cases, depending on the risks presented by a site or community concerns, the Environment Agency may undertake extra monitoring themselves.</p><p>My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State will not grant well consent unless he is satisfied that an environmental permit is in place which contains a condition requiring compliance with a waste management plan providing for the monitoring of emissions of methane into the air for the period of the permit.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 24/02/2015 16:11:15 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

178126

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
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	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 the role is of the Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil in regulation and oversight of onshore fracking activities for shale gas.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	223637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The Office for Unconventional Gas and Oil is part of DECC. It works closely with regulators and industry to ensure that regulation is as efficient as possible whilst remaining robust to safeguard public safety and protect the environment.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 09:51:58 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

172768

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
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	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 recent representations he has received on regulations relating to hydraulic fracturing; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	220147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department regularly receives representations regarding regulation relating to shale gas development and exploration and we have produced a range of guidance material which set out how these concerns are addressed. These can be found at the following link.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-regulation-and-licensing-of-energy-industries-and-infrastructure/supporting-pages/developing-shale-gas-and-oil-in-the-uk" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-regulation-and-licensing-of-energy-industries-and-infrastructure/supporting-pages/developing-shale-gas-and-oil-in-the-uk</a></p><p>We have a strong regulatory framework in place to ensure a comprehensive regime for exploratory activities, and the UK has over 50 years of experience in oil and gas drilling. All of the right regulations are in place to ensure on-site safety, prevent water contamination, air pollution and mitigate seismic activity.</p><p>In June 2012 the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering published an independent review of the scientific and engineering evidence on risks associated with UK shale gas development. Their report concluded that environmental (and health and safety) risks can be managed effectively in the UK, when operational best practices are implemented and enforced through regulation.</p><p>In June 2014 Public Health England published a report that evaluated available evidence on issues including air quality, radon gas, naturally occurring radioactive materials, water contamination and waste water. They concluded that “the risks to public health from exposure to emissions from shale gas extraction are low if operations are properly run and regulated.”</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 13/01/2015 15:39:02 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering