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57603

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date	04/06/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Absenteeism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many days of employee absence there were in each Government department in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	198582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p>It is for individual departments to provide detailed information on absence for each of the last ten years.</p><p>This Government is working to reduce Civil Service absence levels and we know that the average days lost per employee has fallen from 8.7 in June 2010 to 7.4 in December 2013. Average Working Days Lost per staff year are now at their lowest reported figure since 1999, whilst the total number of days lost in the Civil Service is at its lowest recorded level.</p><p>The figures for the Cabinet Office are:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Dec</p><p>2003</p></td><td><p>Dec</p><p>2004</p></td><td><p>Dec 2005</p></td><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>Yr to Dec 2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3.5</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td><td><p>4.2</p></td><td><p>4.1</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>4.0</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>and can be found online here at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-absence-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-absence-data</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 11/06/2014 16:45:29 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

57604

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
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: Electrical Substations
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 average distance is between an onshore windfarm and its connecting sub-station.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	198618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information. Windfarms usually own the cables connecting them to substations. Gathering the information requested would, therefore, require contacting individual windfarm developers at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon grouped question UIN 198611 198613 question first answered 11/06/2014 14:43:39 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

57605

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
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: Electrical Substations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, on how many occasions and relating to which locations proposals for overground cables between onshore windfarms and the connecting sub-station have been rejected in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	198619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department has not rejected any applications for overhead line connections to onshore windfarms in the past 10 years in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 11/06/2014 14:49:46 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

57606

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
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: Electrical Substations
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 take steps to ensure that onshore windfarm developers take into account the costs of (a) overground cables and (b) underground cables between a windfarm and its sub-station when taking decisions on laying such cables.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	198614
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p>Onshore windfarm developers already take into account the costs of different connection options as part of their commercial decisions. In addition, developers submitting applications for nationally significant infrastructure proposals are required to consider alternative options for connections, including undergrounding and routes, as part of the planning consent process.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 11/06/2014 14:48:18 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

57607

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
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: Electrical Substations
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 makes funding available for onshore windfarm operators to place cables underground between the windfarm and the connecting sub-station.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	198610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not make specific funding available to generators for placing their cables underground. However, network infrastructure costs have been factored into Government decisions on levels of support for onshore windfarms such as the Renewables Obligation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 11/06/2014 15:05:36 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

57608

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
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: Electrical Substations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what length of cables between onshore windfarms and connecting sub-stations has been placed (a) above ground and (b) underground in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	198611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information. Windfarms usually own the cables connecting them to substations. Gathering the information requested would, therefore, require contacting individual windfarm developers at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon grouped question UIN 198613 198618 question first answered 11/06/2014 14:43:39 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

57609

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
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: Electrical Substations
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 onshore windfarms have been connected to sub-stations in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	198612
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p>According to Renewable-UK Wind Energy Database the following numbers of onshore wind projects have been connected in Great Britain over the past five years. The vast majority of these projects contained five or fewer turbines. The Department does not hold data on what, if any, connections to substations were required.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong><em>Year</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>Number of Projects</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>73</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>43</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Further details of these onshore wind projects are available at:</p><p><a href="http://www.renewableuk.com/en/renewable-energy/wind-energy/uk-wind-energy-database/index.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.renewableuk.com/en/renewable-energy/wind-energy/uk-wind-energy-database/index.cfm</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 11/06/2014 14:52:14 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

57610

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
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: Electrical Substations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, in which locations cables between onshore windfarms and connecting sub-stations have been placed completely underground in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	198613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information. Windfarms usually own the cables connecting them to substations. Gathering the information requested would, therefore, require contacting individual windfarm developers at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon grouped question UIN 198611 198618 question first answered 11/06/2014 14:43:39 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

57611

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
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: Electrical Substations
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 potential health risks arising from (a) above-ground and (b) underground electricity cables which connect onshore windfarms to sub-stations.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	198609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) is advisor on potential health risks from above ground or underground electricity cables. Government policy, based on advice from PHE, is that the 1998 International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection guidelines on public exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) are applied in terms of the 1999 EU Council Recommendation on limiting exposure of the general public (1999/519/EC). PHE remains the focus of UK expertise in such matters and keeps the scientific evidence relevant to EMF exposures under review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 11/06/2014 15:04:25 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

57759

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	198862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is measuring National Wellbeing, not as an index but through a framework of 41 indicators which capture social progress around important aspects of life for individuals, communities and the nation. The statistics are experimental and as such we should not expect to have examples of major policies that have been heavily influenced by the wellbeing data at this stage.</p><p>Evidence provided to the Environmental Audit Committee for its Inquiry into Wellbeing can be found at: <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/environmental-audit-committee/inquiries/parliament-2010/well-being/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/environmental-audit-committee/inquiries/parliament-2010/well-being/</a></p><p>The evidence submitted by the Department is outlined in Annex A, and demonstrates the impact of our policies and programmes – including our labour market reforms and support for Higher and Further Education – on wellbeing. Since submitting that evidence, we have also commissioned research to develop a comprehensive evidence base on the link between employees' wellbeing and business performance. The findings will feed into future policy development on wellbeing at work, as well as the development of an on-line guide providing suggestions on methods for improving wellbeing in the workplace. The findings from this research, the first of its kind in the UK, are due for publication in late Summer 2014.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 17/06/2014 15:56:54 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane