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454146

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	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	Warm Home Discount Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when she plans to open her Department's consultation on changes to the Warm Home Discount scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
	tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
	uin	27980
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government announced in the Spending Review on 25 November 2015 that the Warm Home Discount scheme would be extended to 2020/21 at current levels of £320m per year, rising with inflation, to help households who are at risk of fuel poverty with their energy bills. Government will publically consult on changes to the scheme later this year.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 29/02/2016 14:49:22 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

454021

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	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	Heating
	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 instruct the National Measurement and Regulation Office to publish a list of all known heat networks in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
	tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
	uin	27989
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>In the final quarter of this year DECC will publish summary tables, including regional breakdowns, of the data gathered as a result of the notification requirement in the Heat Networks (Metering and Billing) Regulations. Due to the commercially sensitive nature of the data, this information will be aggregated rather than a list of individual networks.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 29/02/2016 14:52:39 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

454145

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	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	Heat Pumps: Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
	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 has undertaken a value-for-money assessment for gas absorption heat pumps for inclusion within the Renewable Heat Incentive; and if she will place in the Library a copy of such an assessment.
	tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
	tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
	uin	28128
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>We intend to reform the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) to improve value for money and reduce costs; improve cost control and budget management; and ensure the scheme focuses more on our long-term needs, while contributing to both our carbon and renewable energy targets. We plan to consult on the changes shortly. Therefore, I am unable to make specific commitments as to the future shape of the scheme at this point.</p><p> </p><p>DECC commissioned a suite of evidence to look into the cost and performance of technologies which are not currently eligible for the RHI but could be considered for future inclusion; one of which was Gas Driven Heat Pumps – available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/371695/RHI_Evidence_Report_-_Gas_Driven_Heat_Pumps.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/371695/RHI_Evidence_Report_-_Gas_Driven_Heat_Pumps.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>We have not undertaken a formal value for money assessment for the inclusion of gas absorption heat pumps under the RHI, though we have undertaken a more general assessment of whether gas absorption heat pumps should be supported within the RHI.</p><p> </p><p>Given the challenges of reforming the existing RHI scheme, we are not persuaded that now is the time to also consider opening the scheme to technologies which are not currently supported. Instead, we want to start building a dialogue around the long-term policy framework required for the low-carbon technologies needed in the future, which does not rely on public subsidy.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 29/02/2016 14:51:53 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 47553 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

454143

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	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, how many smart (a) electric and (b) gas meters have been installed in Calderdale since the smart meter programme started; and what estimate she has made of the total savings achieved by consumers as a result of the smart meter programme to date.
	tabling member constituency	Calder Valley
	tabling member printed	Craig Whittaker
	uin	28114
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>Data on the number of smart electricity and gas meters installed in Great Britain is set out in the Government’s ‘Smart Meters, Great Britain, Quarterly report to end September 2015’, published on 22 December 2015:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-release-and-data-smart-meters-great-britain-quarter-3-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-release-and-data-smart-meters-great-britain-quarter-3-2014</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The roll-out is making good progress with more than 2 million meters now operating under the Programme.</p><p> </p><p>Currently, data is published only at Great Britain level. Data is not collected from energy suppliers in a format that allows constituency- or local authority-level data to be produced.</p><p> </p><p>In March 2015 DECC published research on the effects of the early roll-out of smart meters – The Early Learning Project:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-metering-early-learning-project-and-small-scale-behaviour-trials" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-metering-early-learning-project-and-small-scale-behaviour-trials</a>.</p><p> </p><p>This project found reductions in energy consumption consistent with DECC’s steady state projections for domestic consumers. The projections are 2.8% for electricity (prepayment and credit), 2% for gas (credit) and 0.5% for gas (prepayment).</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 29/02/2016 14:50:17 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	3940 label Biography information for Craig Whittaker

454149

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	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	Electricity Generation: Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when she will publish the findings of the Frontier Economics analysis commissioned by her Department in 2014 with the aim of further systematising her Department's understanding of the whole system impacts of electricity generation technologies.
	tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
	tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
	uin	27992
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>DECC commissioned Frontier Economics late in 2014 to undertake a project on the Whole System Impacts of Electricity Generation Technologies on the electricity system.</p><p> </p><p>Given the variety of different terminologies and approaches to whole system impacts in existing literature, the core aim of the project is to set out a comprehensive framework to define whole system impacts and their components and drivers, which can be used to further systematise DECC’s modelling capability. The resulting methodological report is nearing completion following peer review by experts in the field of whole system impacts.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 29/02/2016 14:53:18 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

454151

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	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 of Energy and Climate Change: Ministerial Policy Advisors
	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 (a) policy and (b) other responsibilities are of each special adviser in her Department.
	tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
	tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
	uin	27951
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him by my rt. hon. Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General on Monday 29 February 2016 to Question 27946:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-02-23/27946/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-02-23/27946/</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 01/03/2016 09:15:39 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

454150

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	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 of Energy and Climate Change: Health
	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 Department's wellness strategy is.
	tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
	tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
	uin	27930
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>The Department of Energy and Climate Change is aligned with the Civil Service Health &amp; Well-being Strategy which was agreed by the Civil Service People Board.</p><p> </p><p>This focuses on three priority areas:</p><p>Mental Health</p><p>Musculoskeletal Health</p><p>Healthy Lifestyle</p><p> </p><p>In DECC this means we ensure visible senior leadership of the well-being agenda, we encourage all managers to undertake mental health awareness training increasing manager capability through Civil Service Learning training.</p><p> </p><p>We have been adopting the Public Health England 'Workplace Well-being Charter' and promoting ‘Time to Change’. The Department offers support to staff including ‘Employee Assistance’. The Department is also running wellbeing events and initiatives over the coming year.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 29/02/2016 16:13:17 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma