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523036

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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	Nuclear Power Stations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will (a) list the titles of and (b) publish on her Department's website all reports prepared by (i) officials of her Department and (ii) contractors for her Department since May 2015 on options for financing new nuclear power plants.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	39423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The department has retained advisers in relation to this matter, however any reports they have prepared are commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/06/2016 15:22:41 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

523038

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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	Sizewell 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, what information she has been provided by the Office for Nuclear Regulation to demonstrate the safety of Sizewell B nuclear plant restarting after in-service inspection of the reactor pressure vessel undertaken by EDF; and what assessment she has made of the implications for that process of hydrogen flaking present in the RPV Doel 3 and Tihange 2 reactors in Belgium.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	39427
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>During Sizewell B’s periodic shutdown, inspectors from the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) examined the Licensee’s arrangements for maintenance activities, reviewed test and inspection records and inspected the plant and equipment. A thorough examination (or in-service inspection) of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) was completed by EDF to confirm that it remains in good condition. An ONR team of technical specialists examined the results of the in-service inspections and they are satisfied that they demonstrate the continued integrity of the RPV and that the hydrogen flaking present in the Doel 3 and Tihange 2 reactors in Belgium is not evident at Sizewell B.</p><p> </p><p>ONR inspectors did not identify any issues that would affect the safety case for the restart of the Sizewell B reactor and its safe operation up to the next planned statutory periodic shutdown in 2017, and issued clearance for it to restart on 31 May 2016. ONR expects to publish its Project Assessment Report, detailing this decision, on its website.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/06/2016 15:21:35 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

523039

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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	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 oral evidence given by the Minister of State for Energy to the Energy and Climate Change Committee on 24 May 2016, at Question 200, what the basis is for the Minister's statement that the case brought by the government of Austria in the European Court on the European Commission decision on state aid for the Hinkley Point reactor has no merit; and whether that statement refers to lack of legal or of political merit.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	39482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The UK Government has intervened in the legal challenge brought by Austria against the European Commission’s State aid decision for Hinkley Point C. We have always been confident that the Commission’s decision is legally robust and, as a party to the proceedings, we have now seen the legal arguments made by Austria in their pleadings to the European General Court. It is on this basis that we do not consider that Austria has submitted a challenge of any merit. We consider that the Austrian Government, although following the correct legal procedures in challenging certain aspects of the State aid decision through the Court, has been motivated by its political stance on the future of nuclear more generally.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/06/2016 15:22:26 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

523040

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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	Civil Nuclear Constabulary
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 Civil Nuclear Constabulary conducts an annual survey of its staff.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	39287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The Civil Nuclear Constabulary has undertaken surveys of its staff in previous years but these have not been on a regular annual basis.</p><p> </p><p>The last survey undertaken was a Wellbeing Survey conducted in May 2015 and a general all staff survey is planned for 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>It is the Civil Nuclear Constabulary’s intention to run all staff surveys bi-annually in the future.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/06/2016 15:21:19 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

522454

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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	Mining: Pensions
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 reasons are for the difference in the figures quoted as payments to HM Treasury in respect of its guarantee for the Mineworkers Pension Scheme and the British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme in paragraph 1.21 of the National Audit Office report on Department of Trade and Industry: Sale of the mining operations of the British Coal Corporation, HC 360 1995-96, and the Answer of 8 March 2007 to Question 125573, HC Deb, Column 2124W.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	38958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>Analysis by Binder Hamlyn in 2006 for the NAO had estimated the net present value of payments to the Government (net of any payments from the Government arising from its guarantee) at £2bn over 25 years. This reflects the value at the time of the expected future net payments.</p><p> </p><p>The parliamentary question 125573 answered on 8 March 2007 records that the Binder Hamlyn report found that the total gross payments to the Treasury would be £8bn. This would have been both gross of any payments from the Government and also in cash terms i.e. allowing for the returns achieved on the funds before payment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/06/2016 14:26:56 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

522524

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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	Oil: Exploration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will lay before Parliament (a) the Committee on Climate Change report on the compatibility of UK onshore petroleum with meeting UK carbon budgets and (b) her response to that report before 14 June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	39080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department has received the Committee on Climate Change report. We are considering the report and will lay it before Parliament with our response in due course.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/06/2016 14:27:26 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

522526

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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	Energy Company Obligation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will set out a timeline for consulting on the Energy Company Obligation.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	39093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>We are aiming to consult on the next phase of the Energy Company Obligation as soon as we can. We recognise the interest in understanding the detail of the Obligation from April 2017 and some aspects have already been made known, including the scale and the increased focus on those most in need. The Department meets regularly with a broad range of stakeholders and exchanges learning on the operation of the current Obligation as well as thinking on possible future design.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/06/2016 16:11:42 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

522527

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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	Department for Energy and Climate Change: Off-payroll Working
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 of her Department have been paid off-payroll since May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	39039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>In the Department of Energy and Climate Change there were 193 contingent staff paid off-payroll in the period from May 2015 to 30 April 2016. Not all contingent staff were in post for the full 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>Contingent staff are engaged to undertake short term activities to meet business needs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/06/2016 16:41:12 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

522528

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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	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 her policy is on making smart meters universally compatible for all energy suppliers.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	39050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>Interoperability is one of the Government’s key requirements for the main installation stage of smart metering, which is due to commence later this year. The Government has already established common technical standards for the smart metering equipment (SMETS) and put in place the Data and Communications Company (DCC). This is responsible for setting up the nationwide communications infrastructure across Great Britain to send and receive information from any energy supplier to smart meters.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/06/2016 16:43:16 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

522529

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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	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 recent discussions she has had with Ofgem on the roll out of smart meters to homes across the UK.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	39051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>DECC ministers and officials engage regularly with Ofgem, both bilaterally and as part of the Programme’s Transitional Governance Model arrangements, in line with our roles set out in the joint DECC/Ofgem open letter to the industry on the implementation of smart metering published in December 2014:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-implementation-and-regulation-of-smart-metering-a-joint-deccofgem-open-letter-to-the-industry" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-implementation-and-regulation-of-smart-metering-a-joint-deccofgem-open-letter-to-the-industry</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/06/2016 16:39:24 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray