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391756

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2015
	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	Renewable Energy
	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 she has made of the potential economic benefits of investment in renewable energy resources in the next 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	8181
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department of Energy and Climate Change published <em>Delivering UK Investment: Low Carbon Energy </em>in March 2015 which estimates investment in renewable electricity generation capacity between 2015 and 2020 of up to £45bn. We estimate that the low carbon sector has the potential to support up to 250,000 jobs by 2020, of which 200,000 would be in renewables. [1]</p><p><em>[1]</em><em> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/419024/DECC_LowCarbonEnergyReport.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/419024/DECC_LowCarbonEnergyReport.pdf</a></em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/09/2015 15:43:35 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

391760

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2015
	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	Renewable Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of the UK's electricity was derived from renewable sources in the last year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	8214
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows electricity supplied in the UK by fuel type for the calendar year 2014.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong><em>UK electricity generation by fuel type</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2014</strong></p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>TWh</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% share</strong></p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coal</p></td><td><p>100.7</p></td><td><p>29.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oil</p></td><td><p>1.9</p></td><td><p>0.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gas</p></td><td><p>100.9</p></td><td><p>29.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nuclear</p></td><td><p>63.7</p></td><td><p>18.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hydro (natural flow)</p></td><td><p>5.9</p></td><td><p>1.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wind and Solar</p></td><td><p>36.1</p></td><td><p>10.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>- of which, Offshore</em></p></td><td><p><em>13.4</em></p></td><td><p><em>4.0</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bioenergy</p></td><td><p>23.2</p></td><td><p>6.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pumped Storage</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other fuels</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>1.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>338.9</p></td><td><p> </p><p>100</p><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Renewables are made up of hydro (natural flow), wind and solar (which includes wave tidal) and bioenergy. This makes up 65.2 TWh (a 19.2% share) of total generation.</p><p><em>Source: Energy Trends, table 5.1. Available at:</em></p><p><em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends</a>.</em></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 8218 question first answered 07/09/2015 08:46:15 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

391761

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2015
	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	Renewable Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of the UK's energy was derived from renewable sources in the last year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	8215
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>In 2014, under the Renewable Energy Directive measure, 7.0 per cent of the UK’s gross final energy consumption was derived from renewables.</p><p> </p><p><em>Source: Table DUKES 6.7, Digest of UK Energy Statistics, 2015, available at:</em></p><p><em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/renewable-sources-of-energy-chapter-6-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/renewable-sources-of-energy-chapter-6-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes</a></em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/09/2015 08:47:20 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

391759

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2015
	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	Electricity Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of the electricity produced in the UK derives from each principal method of electricity production.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	8218
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows electricity supplied in the UK by fuel type for the calendar year 2014.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong><em>UK electricity generation by fuel type</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2014</strong></p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>TWh</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% share</strong></p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coal</p></td><td><p>100.7</p></td><td><p>29.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oil</p></td><td><p>1.9</p></td><td><p>0.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gas</p></td><td><p>100.9</p></td><td><p>29.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nuclear</p></td><td><p>63.7</p></td><td><p>18.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hydro (natural flow)</p></td><td><p>5.9</p></td><td><p>1.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wind and Solar</p></td><td><p>36.1</p></td><td><p>10.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>- of which, Offshore</em></p></td><td><p><em>13.4</em></p></td><td><p><em>4.0</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bioenergy</p></td><td><p>23.2</p></td><td><p>6.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pumped Storage</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other fuels</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>1.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>338.9</p></td><td><p> </p><p>100</p><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Renewables are made up of hydro (natural flow), wind and solar (which includes wave tidal) and bioenergy. This makes up 65.2 TWh (a 19.2% share) of total generation.</p><p><em>Source: Energy Trends, table 5.1. Available at:</em></p><p><em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends</a>.</em></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 8214 question first answered 07/09/2015 08:46:15 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

391768

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2015
	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	Wind Power: Subsidies
	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 her Department has made of the potential effect of the proposed closure of the Renewables Obligation to onshore wind on the cost of capital for (a) onshore wind projects and (b) wider renewables investment.
	tabling member constituency	Bracknell
	tabling member printed	Dr Phillip Lee
	uin	8290
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>As part of the parliamentary process, the Department will shortly publish an Impact Assessment that considers the potential effects of its proposals for closing the Renewables Obligation to onshore wind. This will be made available on the Department’s website.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/09/2015 16:09:30 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee

391766

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2015
	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: Lancashire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions she has had with Lancashire Council, Wyre Council, environmental groups and local residents' associations prior to the decision being taken to overrule the rejection of a planning application for gas storage made by Halite Energy in Preesall, Lancashire.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	8359
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>None. The Preesall Underground Gas Storage Facility development consent order application was redetermined by way of a written representation procedure pursuant to Rule 20(2) of the Infrastructure Planning (Examination Procedure) Rules 2010. All representations received under the 2010 Rules or otherwise were taken into account in the decision to grant development consent.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 8360 question first answered 07/09/2015 08:37:26 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

391767

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2015
	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: Lancashire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions she has had with her colleagues in the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs prior to the decision being taken to overrule the rejection of a planning application for gas storage made by Halite Energy in Preesall, Lancashire.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	8360
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>None. The Preesall Underground Gas Storage Facility development consent order application was redetermined by way of a written representation procedure pursuant to Rule 20(2) of the Infrastructure Planning (Examination Procedure) Rules 2010. All representations received under the 2010 Rules or otherwise were taken into account in the decision to grant development consent.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 8359 question first answered 07/09/2015 08:37:27 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

391943

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2015
	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 Stations: Cumbria
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of their decision to endorse the site at Moorside in West Cumbria for the construction of a new nuclear power station, what action they are taking to ensure that any consequent or related infrastructure, including that proposed by National Grid, fully complies with the law and with the undertakings of the government that landscapes designated as of the highest quality, including the landscapes of the National Park, should be protected and not damaged by electricity infrastructure development.
	tabling member printed	Lord Judd
	uin	HL1706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2015 answer text <p>Moorside is one of the eight sites listed as potentially suitable for the construction of new nuclear power stations in the Nuclear National Policy Statement published in 2011. In the event of an application for development consent being made, the Nuclear National Policy Statement sets out how the Planning Inspectorate should consider impacts, including at section 3.10, landscape and visual impacts, before making a recommendation to the Secretary of State. Section 2.8 of the National Policy Statement for Electricity Networks Infrastructure makes similar provisions for related Grid developments. The Energy National Policy Statements are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-policy-statements-for-energy-infrastructure" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-policy-statements-for-energy-infrastructure</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 28/07/2015 13:13:21 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	1660 label Biography information for Lord Judd

391757

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2015
	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	Peatlands: 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 her Department has made of the effect of carbon emissions from England's upland and lowland peatlands.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	uin	8152
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The Governments annual publication of the UK’s greenhouse gas inventory (ref) reports that emissions from management and use of lowland and horticultural soils such as peat was 2.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide [1]. This contributes less than 1% to the estimated 359 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted in England in 20131. We do not currently estimate emissions from upland peat due to a lack of suitable input data.</p><p>In 2014 DECC commissioned the Natural Environment Research Council’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology to propose approaches for the incorporation of emissions from wetland rewetting and drainage from both lowland and upland peatlands in the greenhouse gas emissions inventory. They will report their recommendations by 2017, which will improve our understanding of emissions in this sector.</p><p> </p><p><em><strong>[1]</strong></em> <em>Greenhouse Gas Inventories for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland: 1990-2013, Salisbury, G. Thistlethwaite, K. Young, L. Cardenas, A. Thomson., Ricardo-AEA/R/3452, (2015). <a href="http://naei.defra.gov.uk/reports/reports?report_id=810" target="_blank">http://naei.defra.gov.uk/reports/reports?report_id=810</a></em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/09/2015 16:09:52 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

391758

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2015
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps she plans to take to ensure the UK stays on course to meet its targets to reduce the use of coal and other fossil fuels.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
	tabling member printed	Mr Nick Clegg
	uin	8182
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government has put in place reforms designed to deliver a secure transition to an affordable, low-carbon electricity system.</p><p>Our projections show that, based on current policies, we expect to see around a 50% reduction in total electricity generation from fossil fuels by 2030 compared to 2014*.</p><p><em>*Source: DECC 2014 Updated Annual Energy &amp; Emissions Projections, Annex J <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/updated-energy-and-emissions-projections-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/updated-energy-and-emissions-projections-2014</a></em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/09/2015 15:42:40 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1563 label Biography information for Mr Nick Clegg