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520740

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date	23/05/2016
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	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, with reference to the Energy Technologies Institute report, published on 12 May 2016, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policy of carbon capture and storage technology contributing to meeting the UK's commitments to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	37854
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government views Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) as having a potentially important role in the long-term decarbonisation of the UK’s economy. The Government will set out its approach to CCS in due course, and the recent Energy Technologies Institute report, funded by DECC, will inform the Government’s thinking.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 01/06/2016 14:33:17 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

520741

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
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	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 recent assessment she has made of the financial viability of (a) carbon capture and storage and (b) alternative options in helping to reduce the UK's carbon dioxide emissions.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	37853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government views Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) as having a potentially important role in the long-term decarbonisation of the UK’s economy. However, CCS is currently too expensive and costs must come down. Government will set out its approach to CCS in due course, informed by the findings from Lord Oxburgh’s CCS Advisory Group.</p><p> </p><p>In comparing the costs of other low-carbon technologies in the future, DECC typically use the levelised costs of electricity generation. Levelised costs include capital and operating costs over the lifetime of a plant, as well as DECC estimates of projected fuel and carbon costs.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently undertaking a comprehensive review of our evidence on levelised costs of electricity generation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 01/06/2016 14:34:00 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

520742

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
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	Carbon Capture and Storage
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 implications for her policy of the conclusion of the Energy Technologies Institute report, published on 12 May 2016, that there are no technical hurdles to permanently and safely storing large quantities of carbon dioxide off the coast of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	37851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government views Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) as having a potentially important role in the long-term decarbonisation of the UK’s economy. The Government will set out its approach to CCS in due course, and the recent Energy Technologies Institute report, funded by DECC, will inform the Government’s thinking.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 01/06/2016 14:31:43 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

520743

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
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	Carbon Capture and Storage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when her Department plans to produce a forward plan for carbon capture and storage strategy in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	37852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government will set out its approach to Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in due course, informed by the findings of Lord Oxburgh’s CCS Advisory Group which is planning to report to the Government shortly .</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 01/06/2016 14:34:24 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

521754

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on the Government's ability to prosecute criminals who have left the UK.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	905128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government's position is that the UK will be stronger, safer and better off remaining in a reformed EU.</p><p>Through participation in the European Arrest Warrant, the UK is able to extradite foreign suspects and bring suspects back to the UK more quickly and economically. Since April 2011, it has enabled us to transfer around 5,500 suspects out of the UK and to bring back around 650 to face justice here.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 26/05/2016 12:14:48 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham