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418424

registered interest
date	11/09/2015
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, what her policy is on protecting high hazard areas of work at the Sellafield nuclear facility.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	10006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>Sellafield is the most hazardous site in Europe and contains the legacy ponds and silos – some of the most challenging decommissioning facilities. These have been deemed ‘intolerable’ by the Office of Nuclear Regulation, meaning that there can be no constraint on progress to remediate the hazards.</p><p>As part of its request for future funding as part of the Spending Review announced by HMT on 21 July, DECC’s return contains details of NDA’s estimates of expenditure in line with its existing plans.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 21/09/2015 12:26:53 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 21873 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

418425

registered interest
date	11/09/2015
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 Installations: Decommissioning
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 make an assessment of the effect on (a) skills, (b) the supply chain, (c) small and medium-sized enterprises and (d) local economies of potential reductions to funding of nuclear decommissioning.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	10007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>The impact of any proposed Spending Review settlement for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on the wider economy, including skills, supply chain, SMEs and local economies, will be considered as part of the Spending Review. It will not be possible to conduct detailed analysis of impacts of any funding settlement on these matters, however, until the level of overall funding available is agreed and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and its contractors have had the opportunity to revise plans accordingly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/09/2015 13:10:35 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

418426

registered interest
date	11/09/2015
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 Installations: Decommissioning
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 make an assessment of the marginal annual cost to the public purse of delaying the UK's nuclear decommissioning programme.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	9992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2015 answer text <p>The Secretary of State keeps the costs of all DECC’s policies under review. Decisions on departmental budgets will be made as part of the current Spending Review, due to report in the Autumn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 22/09/2015 12:17:42 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

418427

registered interest
date	11/09/2015
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	Plutonium
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 energy generating potential is of the UK's plutonium stockpile.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	9986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is in the process of submitting advice to DECC, which together with other sources of information and evidence, will enable DECC to consider options for the disposition of plutonium.</p><p>There are a number of options for disposing of plutonium that will be considered. There is variation in the generating potential of some of the options, so there is not one specific estimate of the generating potential of the UK’s plutonium inventory.</p><p>When the Government is confident that its preferred option for plutonium disposition could be implemented safely and securely, and in a way that is affordable, deliverable, and offers value for money, we will be in a position to proceed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 21/09/2015 12:29:18 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 21872 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

418428

registered interest
date	11/09/2015
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	Plutonium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether her Department plans to take a decision on the reuse options for managing plutonium stocks in 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	9984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) are in the process of submitting advice to support DECC in its considerations. This, together with other sources of information and evidence, will enable DECC to consider options for the way forward. A decision is expected to be made by ministers on how to proceed during 2015/16. However, only when the Government is confident that its preferred option could be implemented safely and securely, in way that is affordable, deliverable, and offers value for money, will it be in a position to proceed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 21/09/2015 12:27:48 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 21871 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

418429

registered interest
date	11/09/2015
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 Installations: Decommissioning
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 effect of reductions in funding to the nuclear decommissioning sector on the supply chain in that sector.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	9985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>As part of its request for future funding as part of the Spending Review announced by HM Treasury on 21 July, DECC’s departmental return contains details of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s estimates of expenditure in the next Spending Review period. The potential impact on the supply chain of any settlement will be considered as part of the Spending Review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/09/2015 13:10:48 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

418430

registered interest
date	11/09/2015
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	Solar Power: Renewables Obligation
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 domestic solar PV installations were made in the UK in each of the last five years for which records are available.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	10065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2015 answer text <p>The table below provides the number of domestic solar PV installations in the UK from 2010 to 2015 (data up to June for 2015). Data for Great Britain are for installations supported by the Feed in Tariff, designated as being for domestic use. For Northern Ireland, there is no breakdown of sector available, but all installations are less than 50 kW, and are all included here.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>GB</p></td><td><p>NI</p></td><td><p>UK</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>21,044</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>21,085</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>189,280</p></td><td><p>155</p></td><td><p>189,435</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>148,483</p></td><td><p>775</p></td><td><p>149,258</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>88,570</p></td><td><p>3,779</p></td><td><p>92,349</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>113,080</p></td><td><p>6,634</p></td><td><p>119,714</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>39,118</p></td><td><p>2,830</p></td><td><p>41,948</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source:</p><p>GB data from the Central Feed-in Tariff Register, as at end of June 2015. A snap shot of cumulative installations as at the end of June 2015 is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/sub-regional-feed-in-tariffs-confirmed-on-the-cfr-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/sub-regional-feed-in-tariffs-confirmed-on-the-cfr-statistics</a></p><p>Data for Northern Ireland from the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (and Renewables Obligation), also available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solar-photovoltaics-deployment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solar-photovoltaics-deployment</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 22/09/2015 12:18:40 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

418431

registered interest
date	11/09/2015
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: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if her Department will take steps to ensure that households which use prepayment meters do not pay higher charges than households which do not use such meters.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	10063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2015 answer text <p>Suppliers are required under the terms in their supply licence to ensure that differences in charges for different payment methods, which include the use of prepayment meters, reflect the costs they face to provide that payment method.</p><p>Across the market the prices of prepayment meter tariffs are now largely the same as those of standard variable tariffs and we are starting to see more improvements in the pre-payment meter market with the development of smart meters, for example E.ON is currently piloting a Smart Pay-As-You Go tariff for customers using a smart prepayment meter who then pay the same prices as the company’s direct debit customers and they expect to make the tariff more widely available to new and existing customers from next year.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 22/09/2015 12:19:17 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

418432

registered interest
date	11/09/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Fracking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the final version of her Department's report, Shale Gas: Rural Economy Impacts.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	10066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2015 answer text <p>The full version of the draft rural economy impacts paper was released on 1 July and is available on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-shale-gas-rural-economy-impacts-paper" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-shale-gas-rural-economy-impacts-paper</a>. The draft paper was intended as a rapid review of existing literature; it is not analytically robust. Work on this paper was discontinued and we have no plans to update it.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 18/09/2015 10:55:52 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

418433

registered interest
date	11/09/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Non-native Species
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to prevent the (a) escape and (b) illegal release of non-native wild animals from captivity.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	9958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>As this is a devolved matter this answer applies to England only.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Section 14(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 makes it illegal to release or allow to escape into the wild, any animal or plant which is not ordinarily resident in Great Britain and is not a regular visitor to Great Britain in a wild state, or is listed in Schedule 9 to the Act. Breaches of this legislation could lead to an unlimited fine and/or two years imprisonment on indictment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition to the provisions of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, Orders made in accordance with the Import of Live Fish Act 1980 prohibit the unlicensed keeping or release of 47 species of non-native live fish and all non-native crayfish species.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 17/09/2015 16:19:52 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon