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171841

registered interest
date	18/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the Government's policy is on handling and sharing personal data.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	906851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2015 answer text <p>The UK Government takes the protection of people’s personal data very seriously. Where there is a legal basis to share information, the handling and sharing of personal data is primarily governed by the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), which establishes a legal framework of rights and obligations which protect personal information. The EU is currently negotiating a new data protection framework, which when agreed will repeal and replace the DPA.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 07/01/2015 10:15:30 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

171278

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
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	Fossil Fuels: 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 constraints there are on the carbon emissions of fossil fuel plant falling beneath the 20MW threshold.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	219181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>Several Government policies apply. These include the Climate Change Levy (CCL), Climate Change Agreements (CCAs) and the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). In addition, this Government has introduced the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) to further encourage business energy efficiency.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 06/01/2015 15:20:59 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd previous answer version 37004 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

171280

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
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	Fossil Fuels: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2014 to Question 212486, when he expects the assessment of the applications received under the 14th Onshore Oil and Gas Licensing round to be completed; and when he expects to set a date for announcement of the award of licences.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	219197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>The assessment of the applications is ongoing. We hope to be able to announce licence offers in the early part of 2015.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 06/01/2015 15:19:02 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 37008 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

169816

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	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, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of prepayment meter customers who self-disconnected at least once in each year since 2010 and (b) total number of prepayment meter customers in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	218286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on the number of pre-payment meter customers who self-disconnected.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 17/12/2014 16:02:45 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

169472

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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	Power Stations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate his Department has made of the dispatch period required to increase capacity at (a) nuclear, (b) combined cycle gas turbine, (c) open cycle gas turbine and (d) coal-fired power stations.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	218065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>A report by independent energy consultants Parsons Brinckerhoff commissioned by this Department considers the flexibility of coal and gas power technologies:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/technical-assessment-of-the-operation-of-coal-gas-fired-plants" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/technical-assessment-of-the-operation-of-coal-gas-fired-plants</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The table below contains information from the report and shows indicative start up times for coal, existing and modern gas combined cycle gas turbines (CCGT) and large and aero-derivative open cycle gas turbines (OCGT):</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Technology</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Notice to Synch* (mins)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Synch to Full Load (mins)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Hot Start</strong></p></td><td><p>Coal</p><p>Existing Gas CCGT</p><p>Modern Gas CCGT</p><p>Gas Large OCGT</p></td><td><p>80-90</p><p>15</p><p>15</p><p>2-5</p></td><td><p>50-100</p><p>35-80</p><p>25</p><p>15-30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Warm Start</strong></p></td><td><p>Coal</p><p>Existing Gas CCGT</p><p>Modern Gas CCGT</p><p>Gas Large OCGT</p></td><td><p>300</p><p>15</p><p>15</p><p>2-5</p></td><td><p>85</p><p>80</p><p>-</p><p>15-30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Cold Start</strong></p></td><td><p>Coal</p><p>Existing Gas CCGT</p><p>Modern Gas CCGT</p><p>Gas Large OCGT</p></td><td><p>360-420</p><p>15</p><p>15</p><p>2-5</p></td><td><p>80-250</p><p>190-240</p><p>190</p><p>15-30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>All Starts</strong></p></td><td><p>Gas (Aero) OCGT</p></td><td><p>2-5</p></td><td><p>4-8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>*‘Notice to Synch’ is the period of prior notice that a power plant requires to be able to start up the plant to the point of synchronisation.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The current nuclear fleet is not specifically designed for load following and generally plants will operate at their full nominal load. Plants that are offline for maintenance or refuelling will not usually be available to come back on line rapidly as there are a number of safety requirements that must be observed on re-start.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 17/12/2014 16:14:11 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 33756 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

169473

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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	Fossil Fuelled Power Stations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much of the plant which has qualified for the first auction of the capacity market is fossil-fuel burning plant of less than 20MW capacity, given (a) in MW and (b) as a proportion of the total capacity qualifying for the auction.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	218063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>Fossil fuelled fired plant which has prequalified and confirmed its participation in the capacity auction and which is less than 20MW (on a de-rated capacity basis), totals around 1,950MW of de-rated capacity. This is about 3% of the total of 64,969MW of de-rated capacity which will participate in the auction.</p><p>The full list of capacity that has pre-qualified can be found on the National Grid website:</p><p><a href="https://www.emrdeliverybody.com/pages/Home.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f_layouts%2f15%2fAuthenticate.aspx%3fSource%3d%252F&amp;Source=%2F" target="_blank">https://www.emrdeliverybody.com/pages/Home.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f_layouts%2f15%2fAuthenticate.aspx%3fSource%3d%252F&amp;Source=%2F</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 15/12/2014 17:56:40 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

169474

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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	Electricity: Billing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate his Department has made of the additional cost to electricity suppliers in the capacity market of carrying the liability for meeting the payments of a defaulting participant.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	218062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department has not made an estimate of the additional cost to suppliers of carrying the liability in the event of one participant defaulting. In the first instance each supplier is required to post credit cover which will be used to cover a missed payment. In the unlikely event a defaulted payment is mutualised across other suppliers, the actual amount would depend on the overall cost of the capacity market payments in that year, and the share of these costs due to be paid by the defaulting supplier. Electricity suppliers have been consulted on these arrangements.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 15/12/2014 17:57:21 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

169476

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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	Power Stations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate his Department has made of the Cost of New Entry, represented as £/MHh for (a) 800MW OCGT, (b) 800MW CCGT, (c) gas plant sub-20MW and (d) oil plant sub-20MW.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	218064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>DECC’s publishes estimates for the levelised costs of electricity generation for different technologies. The most recent £/MWh estimates are available in the DECC Electricity Generation Costs (December 2013) report, available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/269888/131217_Electricity_Generation_costs_report_December_2013_Final.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/269888/131217_Electricity_Generation_costs_report_December_2013_Final.pdf</a></p><p>Table 1 below is taken from this report, and shows the central levelised cost estimate for representative CCGT and OCGT plants commissioning in 2016. Estimates are not published for sub 20-MW gas plants or oil plants.</p><p>Table 1: Levelised cost estimates for CCGT and OCGT technologies, technology specific hurdle rates</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£/MWh</p><p>£2012</p></td><td><p>CCGT (gas) *</p></td><td><p>OCGT (gas) *</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Projects commissioning in 2016</p></td><td><p>77</p></td><td><p>169</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* CCGT: Combined Cycle Gas Turbine, OCGT: Open Cycle Gas Turbine</p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that updated cost input assumptions for the range of CCGT and OCGT costs are provided in a Coal and Gas Assumptions report by Parsons Brinkerhoff commissioned by DECC (March 2014). This is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/315717/coal_and_gas_assumptions.PDF" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/315717/coal_and_gas_assumptions.PDF</a></p><p>The levelised cost of a particular generation technology is the ratio of the total costs of a generic plant to the total amount of electricity expected to be generated over the plant’s lifetime (per megawatt hour). Levelised cost estimates are highly sensitive to the assumptions used for capital costs, fuel and EU ETS allowance prices, operating costs, load factor, discount rate and other drivers and this means that there is significant uncertainty around these estimates.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/12/2014 15:41:26 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 33757 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

155837

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
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	Green Deal Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) Green Deal assessments, (b) Green Deal plans in unique properties and (c) measures installed using Green Deal finance in each month since January 2013 in (i) Scotland, (ii) England and (iii) Wales.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	214700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department reports the number of (a) Green Deal Assessments, (b) Green Deal Plans in unique properties and (c) measures installed using Green Deal finance by month in the following Official Statistics publication in Tables 2, 3 and 3a respectively:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/green-deal-and-energy-company-obligation-eco-monthly-statistics-october-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/green-deal-and-energy-company-obligation-eco-monthly-statistics-october-2014</a></p><p>DECC currently only publish cumulative totals to the end of each quarter for any geographic breakdown tables (i.e. for Scotland, England and Wales). My department reports the number of Green Deal Assessments, and 'live' Green Deal Plans (with measures installed) in unique properties by region, up to 30th June 2014 in Tables 1.6 and 1.7 respectively in the quarterly official statistics publication:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/green-deal-energy-company-obligation-eco-and-insulation-levels-in-great-britain-quarterly-report-to-june-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/green-deal-energy-company-obligation-eco-and-insulation-levels-in-great-britain-quarterly-report-to-june-2014</a></p><p>Cumulative totals to previous totals are also available in previous quarterly publications.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 20/11/2014 16:07:10 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

155871

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
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	Environment Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of people employed in the low carbon and environmental goods and services sector in each year since 2005.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	214526
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2014 answer text <p>A report published by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills contains estimates of the number of jobs within the wider low carbon and environmental goods and services sector from 2007/08 to 2011/12 (figures for earlier years are not available) and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/low-carbon-and-environmental-goods-and-services-2011-to-2012" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/low-carbon-and-environmental-goods-and-services-2011-to-2012</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd attachment 1 file name LCEGS-underlying-data 2011 to 2012.xls title LCEGS Underlying Data 2011-12 2 file name bis-13-p143-low-carbon-and-environmental-goods-and-services-report-2011-12.pdf title LCEGS Report 2011-12 question first answered 21/11/2014 14:34:57 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd previous answer version 29082 answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex