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179554

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	AWE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assistance the Atomic Weapons Establishment is receiving from the US authorities on Project Pegasus.
tabling member constituency	North Devon
tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
uin	224442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>Officials from the Ministry of Defence and the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) regularly discuss a range of nuclear matters with their US counterparts under the auspices of the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement. These matters include aspects of the capital investment programme at AWE, of which Pegasus forms a part.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 26/02/2015 17:21:03 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

179555

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	AWE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when construction work on Box A of Project Pegasus at the Atomic Weapons Establishment started.
tabling member constituency	North Devon
tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
uin	224441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>Pegasus is the replacement Highly Enriched Uranium component manufacturing and storage facility, and forms part of the Government's programme of investment in the Atomic Weapons Establishment sites.</p><p>Preparatory work on Box A started in May 2013 and construction work began in August 2013.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 26/02/2015 17:20:35 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

177698

registered interest
date	04/02/2015
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	Biofuels
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 his Department's report, Life Cycle Impacts of Biomass Electricity in 2020, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of that report's conclusion that biomass can have the same environmental effects as fossil fuel; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Devon
tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
uin	223317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The report on the Life Cycle Impacts of Biomass Electricity in 2020 showed that biomass, when sourced responsibly, can provide a cost-effective, low carbon and controllable source of renewable energy. The Government has introduced some of the toughest sustainability criteria in the world and we have taken steps to strengthen them further, including by bringing forward proposals for mandatory sustainability requirements. The Department has committed to improving on the evidence base provided by the report. In December a tender was issued for a research contract to investigate the likelihood of occurrence in the period to 2030 of the scenarios identified in the report as potentially having higher carbon impacts than fossil fuelled alternatives.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 23/02/2015 10:13:01 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

177699

registered interest
date	04/02/2015
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	Biofuels
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 68 of his Department's report, Life Cycle Impacts of Biomass Electricity in 2020, if he will make an assessment of the need to include those factors listed in that paragraph that are not included in the methodology to calculate the effects of biomass on the environment; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Devon
tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
uin	223316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s bioenergy strategy published in 2012 established that future bioenergy policy should seek to ensure genuine carbon savings. The report, Life Cycle Impacts of Biomass Electricity in 2020, showed that biomass, when sourced responsibly, can provide a cost-effective, low carbon and controllable source of renewable energy.</p><p>The Government has introduced some of the toughest sustainability criteria in the world and we have taken steps to strengthen them further, including by bringing forward proposals for mandatory sustainability requirements. We also continue to develop the evidence on the wider impacts of bioenergy.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 23/02/2015 09:58:27 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

176051

registered interest
date	27/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Type 45 Destroyers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department has spent on the Type 45 programme in each of the last four financial years; and what the projected spend is on that programme in each of the next four financial years.
tabling member constituency	North Devon
tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
uin	222281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The total spent on the Type 45 programme in each of the last four financial years is shown in the table below. This includes costs of the Type 45 build programme and the in-service support of the six ships. I am withholding information on the projected spend over the next four financial years as we are negotiating a contract for future support, and its release would therefore prejudice the commercial interests of the Department.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year (FY)</p><p>2010-11</p><p>£ million</p><p> </p></td><td><p>FY</p><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>FY</p><p>2012-13</p><p> </p></td><td><p>FY</p><p>2013-14</p><p> </p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>281</p></td><td><p>237</p></td><td><p>167</p></td><td><p>104</p></td><td><p>789</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 09/02/2015 17:23:14 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

176052

registered interest
date	27/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Aircraft Carriers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department has spent on the aircraft carrier programme in each of the last four financial years; and what the projected spend is on that programme in each of the next four financial years.
tabling member constituency	North Devon
tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
uin	222302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2015 answer text <p>The total spent on the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier programme in each of the last four financial years, as published in the National Audit Office’s Major Project Report covering each of the relevant years, is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£630 million</p></td><td><p>£670 million</p></td><td><p>£712 million</p></td><td><p>£773 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>I am withholding the breakdown of the projected spend on the programme for each of the next four financial years as its disclosure would prejudice commercial interests. The overall cost of the ship programme, as announced by the then Secretary of State for Defence, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond), on 6 November 2013, (<em>Official Report,</em> column 251-254), is £6.212 billion.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 03/02/2015 17:42:57 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

176080

registered interest
date	27/01/2015
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	Energy: Debts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if the Government will make it its policy to include families with children as a vulnerable group in the Social and Environment Statutory Guidance to the Gas and Electric Market Authority.
tabling member constituency	North Devon
tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
uin	222303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>The Ofgem Review of 2010-11 recommended that the Social and Environmental Statutory Guidance to the Gas and Electricity Market Authority should be replaced with a new Strategy and Policy Statement. The guidance will be repealed once the statement is designated. The draft statement, which Government consulted on last year, makes it clear that helping vulnerable households is one of the Government’s strategic priorities to which Ofgem should have regard to when carrying out its regulatory functions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 29/01/2015 16:56:34 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

176081

registered interest
date	27/01/2015
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	Energy: Debts
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 families with children in (a) North Devon constituency and (b) the UK are in debt to their energy companies.
tabling member constituency	North Devon
tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
uin	222282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>Ofgem closely monitors domestic energy suppliers’ performance and publishes information in relation to debt owed by domestic electricity and gas accounts holders in Great Britain, but they do not publish data relating to families with children or constituency areas. At the end of 2013, latest data available, 1.5 million domestic electricity accounts holders and 1.4 million domestic gas accounts holders were in debt to their energy supplier:</p><p><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ofgem-publications/92186/annualreport2013finalforpublication.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ofgem-publications/92186/annualreport2013finalforpublication.pdf</a>.</p><p><em>(Ofgem’s Domestic Suppliers’ Social Obligations: 2013 Annual Report) </em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 29/01/2015 16:57:01 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock attachment 1 file name annualreport2013finalforpublication.pdf title Domestic Suppliers Social Obligations: 2013 report
tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

174708

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what cross-departmental work his Department is undertaking on veterans' welfare.
tabling member constituency	North Devon
tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
uin	221427
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>A very feature of the Armed Forces Covenant is the Covenant Reference Group (CRG), which is chaired by the Cabinet Office Minister for Government Policy and includes representatives from all of the main Government Departments. The CRG meets regularly to guide and direct work on the Armed Forces Covenant, including support for the veteran community. Other members of the CRG include the three Service Family Federations, COBSEO (the Confederation of Service Charities) and other charities.</p><p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is represented at cross-Departmental groups, such as the DCLG Working Group for Homeless Veterans. In addition, the MOD co-chairs with the Department of Health the MOD/UK Departments of Health Partnership Board, which is responsible for ensuring that the MOD and UK Health Departments work together to meet the requirements of the Armed Forces Covenant (an obligation which the NHS in England is mandated to deliver), and to improve the health and healthcare of the Armed Forces, their families and veterans.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 26/01/2015 16:51:53 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

174381

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what research his Department has (a) commissioned, (b) funded and (c) undertaken on the mental health needs of service personnel and veterans since 2010; and what his most recent estimate is of the number of service personnel and veterans with such needs.
tabling member constituency	North Devon
tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
uin	221166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) commissions and funds a wide range of research into the mental health of Armed Forces personnel. This work continues to produce high quality evidence upon which we can make considered decisions about the way we manage and treat our personnel.</p><p>In particular, we continue to fund the large-scale, ongoing independent study (initially commissioned by the MOD in 2003) from the King's Centre for Mental Health Research (KCMHR), which has become an important source of data on the impact of deployment on the overall health and wellbeing of military personnel who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Specific work commissioned under this contract since 2010 includes research into mental health disorders in Reservists; evaluation of a Post-Operational Stress Management programme tailored to Reservists; mental health stigma in the Armed Forces; and a US-funded study into a possible screening tool for mental health issues. Another significant piece of work commissioned and funded by the MOD has been a study of alcohol use disorders, conducted by Cranfield University.</p><p>It is not possible to provide the number of serving personnel or veterans with mental health needs at any single point in time. However, statistics show that in financial year 2013-14, 5,040 UK Armed Forces personnel had a new episode of care for a mental disorder at one of the MOD's Departments of Community Mental Health, the majority of whom will have already been successfully treated and returned to work. The medical treatment of ex-service personnel is the responsibility of the UK Departments of Health, and the MOD continues to work closely with them to improve the mental healthcare available.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 26/01/2015 17:05:32 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey