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346876

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
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 Efficiency Deployment Office
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 expanding the scope and budget of the Energy Efficiency Deployment Office; and how many staff are employed in that Office.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed to improving energy efficiency. Work on energy efficiency has been carried out across several directorates in the Department over recent years. Following an internal reorganisation within the Department earlier in 2015, the Energy Efficiency Deployment Office no longer exists. The work it previously carried out is now undertaken in a number of different directorates, including those focused on home energy use and business and local energy use.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 02/06/2015 13:28:05 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

229375

registered interest
date	24/03/2015
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	Radioactive Waste
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proposals were put forward to his Department by Copper Consulting of Bristol in respect of the proposed designation of the geological disposal facility for nuclear waste as a nationally significant infrastructure project.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	228884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 26/03/2015 10:11:06 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

226432

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2015 to Question 226097, for what specific reasons information is not available on the (a) cost of the Government submission to the European Commission in support of its application for State Aid approval for the Hinkley Point C power plant, (b) proportion of the costs that was spent on legal fees and (c) title of each support document submitted by the Government with that application.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	227052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>Information is not available on the overall cost of external advice to support the Government’s application for State aid approval for Hinkley Point C as we do not hold a full breakdown of costs which separates out the total amount for State aid advice from the costs of other external advice associated with the project. There would be a disproportionate cost involved in providing this information.</p><p>With regards to (c), all of the relevant information regarding the UK Government’s submissions to the European Commission is available in the Commission’s Closing Decision on the Hinkley Point C State aid case, which was published on 22<sup>nd</sup> January 2015:</p><p><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/cases/251157/251157_1615983_2292_4.pdf" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/cases/251157/251157_1615983_2292_4.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/03/2015 14:55:52 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

225897

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	Housing: 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 his Department has made of the implications for its policies of the report by the Zero Carbon Hub on Assessing Overheating Risk, published in March 2015.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	226728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department is reviewing the report by the Zero Carbon Hub on Assessing Overheating Risk as well as the other Evidence Review Reports which have been produced. We will take steps to ensure the Zero Carbon Hub’s research can be made relevant to the development of the tools used to assess household energy performance such as the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP).</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 17/03/2015 16:15:36 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

225898

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	Natural Gas: Russia
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 his German counterpart on the implications for energy security of use of imports of Russian gas; and what proportion of energy demand in (a) the UK and (b) Germany was filled by imported gas from Russia on the latest date for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	226729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>Neither my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State nor I have had recent discussions with Vice Chancellor Gabriel on the implications for energy security of the use of imports of Russian gas. We do, however, continue to monitor this issue closely, and to work hard for the reforms required to improve overall energy security in Europe through the EU Energy Union. This has been a regular agenda item at the Energy Council which all EU Member States participate in. These reforms include improving interconnection between energy markets across Europe to provide Member States with more diverse supply sources and increase resilience.</p><p>We estimate that direct gas imports from Russia account for 11% of German energy demand. The United Kingdom does not physically import any gas directly from Russia. A small amount of Russian gas may be imported through our interconnector pipelines with the Netherlands and Belgium, but this is likely to be around 1% of the United Kingdom’s demand. Similarly, Germany has gas transit links with Poland, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and others. We cannot definitively determine the final destination of all Russian gas due to the interconnectedness of the pipelines within the European gas market.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/03/2015 15:01:21 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

225899

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	Sellafield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to paragraph 2.22 of the Report by the National Audit Office, Progress on the Sellafield site: an update, published in March 2015, when he was first informed that Nuclear Management Partners had failed to appoint a director of security for Sellafield; and what steps he subsequently took to ensure that the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Sellafield Limited put such a security director in place.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	226730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>Sellafield has had a Chief Security Officer, reporting directly to the Managing Director, in post at all times. The NAO report refers to the Director of Security, Emergency Management and Resilience Programmes (SERP), which is a new post specifically created to manage delivery of the portfolio of security, emergency management and resilience related programmes.</p><p>Staffing decisions at the Site Licence Companies are the responsibility of the Board of the SLC. As was appropriate the NDA and DECC were kept informed throughout the process. The new Director started in post on 5 January 2015.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/03/2015 15:00:07 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

225999

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	Policy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what policies contained in the 2010 Coalition Agreement and falling under his Department's responsibilities have not yet been implemented; and what the reasons are for each such policy's non-implementation.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	226773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the Department’s Business Plan which records all commitments, timescales for completion and progress against them. The Business Plan is fully transparent and is available at:</p><p><a href="http://www.transparency.number10.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.transparency.number10.gov.uk</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 18/03/2015 17:50:21 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

225167

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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	Nuclear Power
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether he plans to implement proposals made by his Department's Nuclear Innovation and Research Advisory Board in its recently published annual report for additional public money to be allocated to research, development and demonstration into (a) nuclear fuel fabrication, including in the development and manufacture of the next generation of safer, accident tolerant and more efficient nuclear fuels, (b) advanced reactor development, including into research and development in areas that aim to give UK companies a competitive edge in the design and manufacture of significant reactor components for small modular reactors and Generation IV reactors and (c) recycle and waste management, including into investment in research and development into advanced recycle and waste management technologies.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	226343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>This is an important and ground breaking first report from the Nuclear Innovation and Research Advisory Board, who are to be congratulated on the depth of their analysis. I very much welcome their work and the contribution it will make to the debate on where next for the UK nuclear industry.</p><p> </p><p>Work is already on-going in respect to a number of the recommendations. In December last year Government announced up to £67million of capital to provide essential nuclear R&amp;D infrastructure over the next 6 years.</p><p> </p><p>In line with recommendations from NIRAB, the National Nuclear Laboratory and the Energy and Climate Change Committee, we are already undertaking more work to build our understanding of Small Modular Reactors and whether they can play a role in the UK’s future energy mix.</p><p> </p><p>Other recommendations set out by the NIRAB speak to a sustained and longer-term programme of work and will therefore need to be considered as part of any future Government review of spending.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/03/2015 16:05:27 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

225173

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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	Tidal Power: Newport
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 potential effect on the city of Newport of the proposed tidal lagoon power project.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	226383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s 2010 Severn Tidal Power feasibility study [1] assessed the potential for a tidal lagoon near Newport as part of 5 generic Severn Estuary tidal range schemes.</p><p>No assessment has been made of the Cardiff tidal lagoon recently proposed by developer Tidal Lagoon Power Ltd.</p><p> </p><p><em><strong>[1]</strong></em><em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/1-severn-tidal-power-feasibility-study-conclusions-and-summary-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/1-severn-tidal-power-feasibility-study-conclusions-and-summary-report</a></em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 11/03/2015 16:42:57 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

224694

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
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
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 requests his Department has received under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for documents submitted by his Department in support of the Government's application for State Aid Approval for Hinkley Point C; and what the response of his Department was to each such request.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	226098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department has received two information requests for documents that DECC provided to the European Commission to assist with their investigation into the State aid case for Hinkley Point C. The requested information was withheld as its release would damage and adversely affect international relations, the confidentiality of commercial or industrial information and the commercial interests of the UK Government in the ongoing discussions on the potential Contract for Difference for Hinkley Point C.</p><p>However, all of the relevant information is available in the Commission’s Closing Decision on the Hinkley Point C State aid case, which was published on 22<sup>nd</sup> January 2015. This sets out how the UK Government responded to the issues that were raised in the Opening Decision in December 2013 and in the Commission’s consultation with interested parties <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/cases/251157/251157_1615983_2292_4.pdf" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/cases/251157/251157_1615983_2292_4.pdf</a></p><p>Any Contract for Difference agreed for Hinkley Point C must be published in line with the requirements of the the Contracts for Difference (Allocation) Regulations 2014. In addition, for Hinkley Point C the Government has also committed to publishing summaries of its value for money assessment.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/03/2015 15:37:18 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn