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	registered interest
	date	17/06/2015
	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	Fracking and Wind Power
	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 applications her Department has received for licences for unconventional gas extraction since 2010; how many such applications were approved; how many applications her Department has received for onshore wind generation facilities since 2010; and how many such applications were approved.
	tabling member constituency	City of Chester
	tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
	uin	2875
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2015 answer text <p>Petroleum Exploration and Development Licences (PEDLs) grant exclusive rights to extract hydrocarbons within a particular onshore area. These rights include, but are not exclusive to, unconventional gas. A further consent is required before any extraction can take place. No PEDLs have been issued since 2008. Applications for PEDLs under the 14<sup>th</sup> Onshore Licensing Round are currently being considered – 95 applications for 295 licence blocks have been made.</p><p>Since 2010 DECC has received 3 planning applications for onshore windfarms above 50MW and the Planning Inspectorate has received 1 further application for examination. 6 onshore wind applications above 50MW have been approved by the Secretary of State in the period. In addition, at the end of March 2015, five years after the introduction of the Feed-in Tariff scheme, 6,830 sub 5MW installations totalling 396MW had been registered on the scheme. The Renewables Obligation was introduced in 2002 to support large scale renewable electricity in the UK and since 2010 Ofgem have accredited 415 onshore wind stations totalling 4.28 GW under the scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 25/06/2015 13:11:44 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

425298

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2015
	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	Employment
	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 her Department has made of the change in the number of jobs in the energy efficiency, solar and low-carbon heating industries during 2015 to date; what estimate it has made of the equivalent change in 2016; and what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse will be of support packages provided by the Government to people who have lost or will lose their jobs in those industries.
	tabling member constituency	City of Chester
	tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
	uin	14352
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>In March 2015, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills published a report on 'The size and performance of the UK low carbon economy’ which contains estimates for the number of jobs supported by various low carbon sectors. The latest data is for 2013 and suggests that in the UK there were 54,400 directly employed in the energy efficiency products sector, 20,300 directly employed in the solar photovoltaic sector and 19,300 directly employed in the low carbon heating sector (excluding use of biomass). Further employment occurs in the supply chains to these sectors.</p><br /><p>Information is not available to robustly estimate the potential cost to the public purse of the changes. However a Government consultation has been run on the changes to the financial support for solar PV within the Renewable Obligationfrom 22 July to2 September and a consultation on the feed-in tariff review from 27 August to 23 October. We welcomed evidence from the sector during these consultations and we will respond in due course. The government is committed to reducing emissions from heating and improving energy efficiency, including a goal to install one million more energy efficiency measures before the end of this Parliament.</p><br /><p>Figures quoted above have been rounded to the nearest hundred. The full report and data can be found at the following link:</p><br /><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/low-carbon-economy-size-and-performance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/low-carbon-economy-size-and-performance</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/11/2015 15:09:22 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

424900

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2015
	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: Feed-in Tariffs
	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 responses she has received to the recent consultation on proposed cuts to the feed-in tariff; how long she plans for her Department to spend on evaluating those responses; and when she plans to make public the Government's proposed next steps on this matter.
	tabling member constituency	City of Chester
	tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
	uin	13989
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>The Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) scheme review consultation closed on 23 October and we are currently evaluating the responses received. We have received nearly 55,000 responses to the consultation and we currently estimate that just over 2,600 are unique and detailed responses; the rest are briefer and more uniform responses, generated by campaigns.</p><br /><p>We expect to publish a Government response in due course.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 19/11/2015 15:23:34 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

443242

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2016
	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	Methane
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what initial assessment she has made of the implications of the incident at Porter Ranch, California, for safety and engineering procedures and standards in the UK onshore unconventional gas extraction sector.
	tabling member constituency	City of Chester
	tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
	uin	21523
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2016 answer text <p>In the UK, we have an entirely different regulatory system to the US.</p><p>We have over 50 years of experience in safely conducting surface activities and constructing onshore gas wells, regulated by the Health &amp; Safety Executive and Environment Agency.</p><br /><p>Our tough regulations ensure on-site safety, prevent water contamination, mitigate seismic activity and air pollution. To reinforce our already robust regulations, the Infrastructure Act 2015 introduced a range of further requirements that must be met before an operator can carry out hydraulic fracturing in a responsible, sustainable and safe manner. These include the assessment of environmental impacts, groundwater monitoring, community benefits and prohibiting hydraulic fracturing in specified protected areas.</p><br /><p>The UK has one of the best track records in the world when it comes to protecting our environment while also developing our industries – and we’ve brought that experience to bear on the shale gas protections.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/01/2016 12:09:45 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

513635

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2016
	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	Oil: Exploration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether the firm work commitments relating to Petroleum Exploration and Development Licence 189 which expire on 30 June 2016 have been satisfied.
	tabling member constituency	City of Chester
	tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
	uin	34372
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>Petroleum Exploration and Development Licence 189 carries an Initial Term Work Programme to obtain and reprocess seismic data and to drill a well. The seismic data has been acquired and reprocessed. The operator has requested from the Oil and Gas Authority an amendment of the licence to allow additional time for the drilling of the well.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 22/04/2016 13:44:28 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

513636

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2016
	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	Oil: Exploration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether a deed of variation has been agreed for Petroleum Exploration and Development Licence 189.
	tabling member constituency	City of Chester
	tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
	uin	34369
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>A deed of variation has not been agreed for this licence.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 22/04/2016 13:44:50 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

516245

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2016
	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	Oil: Exploration
	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 22 April 2016 to Question 34372, whether Petroleum Exploration and Development Licence 189 was one of the licences included in the Deed of Variation dated 4 December 2013, allowing the drilling of 10 wells to a depth of 800 metres and three wells to 3,000 metres on 13 specified licences.
	tabling member constituency	City of Chester
	tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
	uin	35785
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>A Deed of Variation was made on 4 December 2013 in respect of Licence PEDL189. It amended both the Licence’s Initial Term Work Programme and the date at which the Licence’s Initial Term would expire. A further variation has been sought by the licensee, and while it remains the case as I said in the answer I gave the hon. Member on 22 April that no such variation has been agreed, that request is under consideration from the Oil and Gas Authority and a decision will be made shortly:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-04-18/34369/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-04-18/34369/</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 04/05/2016 11:04:53 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson