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449999

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Polygamy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the number of men in the UK who are in polygamous marriages.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	25524
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 04/02/2016 11:40:01 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name 25524 FINAL.pdf title UKSA Letter to Member - Polygamous Marriages
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

459040

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of how many citizens of (a) Ireland, (b) Malta, and (c) Cyprus will be eligible to vote in the EU referendum.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	30512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 14/03/2016 13:29:19 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name 30512 FINAL.pdf title UKSA Letter to Member - Citizens eligible to Vote
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

604971

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Energy: Meters
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of smart meters which rely on 2G technology.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	49219
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government has not made an estimate of the number of smart meters that operate using 2G technology. Energy suppliers are incentivised to make sure they have procured communications to allow them to carry on operating smart meters for the whole of their life.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 25/10/2016 10:33:47 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

782934

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the offshore wind capital expenditure data was for each of the last two years; and what the evidential basis is for his Department's assessment of the fall in the cost of wind power.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	111098
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data on capital expenditure for individual offshore wind projects. The Department’s latest projection of capital expenditure for generic offshore wind projects is published in Arup (2016): Review of Renewable Electricity Generation Cost and Technical Assumptions, and can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/arup-2016-review-of-renewable-electricity-generation-cost-and-technical-assumptions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/arup-2016-review-of-renewable-electricity-generation-cost-and-technical-assumptions</a>.</p><p>The Contracts for Difference (CfD) Second Allocation Round results, which were announced on 11 September 2017, showed one offshore wind project commissioning in 2021/22 cleared at a strike price of £74.75/MWh (2012 prices) and two offshore wind projects commissioning in year 2022/23 cleared at a strike price of £57.50/MWh (2012 prices). Both these prices represent a saving on the administrative strike price set using the data from Arup (2016), indicating that offshore wind costs are falling.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 10/11/2017 12:02:03 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

782936

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of guaranteeing the strike price to consumers of operational offshore wind sites in (a) 2015 and (b) 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	111099
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2017 answer text <ul><li>The first Contract For Difference (CfD) allocation round results, published in 2015, saw over 1.2 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity secure contracts, estimated at the time of the auction to cost consumers just over £240 million per year (2012 prices).</li><li>The second round results, announced in September 2017, saw the clearing price half for offshore wind delivered in the auction; we secured an additional 3.2 gigawatts of new offshore wind capacity, estimated at the time of the auction to cost consumers just over £130 million per year (2012 prices).</li><li>There are many factors that affect payments under these contracts, which mean that actual costs may go up or down.</li><li>These results demonstrate that the UK is an attractive place to invest, with a record amount of renewable capacity secured to power our homes.</li><li>The price of offshore wind clearing through the auction has halved in two years, demonstrating that competitive auctions are working well to drive down costs and deliver savings for consumers, whilst delivering the government’s decarbonisation ambitions.</li></ul> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 10/11/2017 13:09:22 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

457185

	registered interest
	date	29/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	BBC: Political Impartiality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that the BBC upholds its obligations under the charter relating to impartiality during the EU referendum campaign.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	903872
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2016 answer text <p>In June 2015 I wrote to the Chairs of the BBC Trust and Ofcom on this subject. Their replies set out their plans. The Trust has since consulted on and published guidelines for covering the referendum.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 03/03/2016 18:00:22 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

607506

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Foster Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in local authority care are awaiting placement with foster parents.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	49745
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not collect this information. If any children are awaiting placement with foster carers, that information will be kept at local authority level. As at March 2015 there were 73,845 approved foster carers in England.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 31/10/2016 16:48:42 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

515812

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2016
	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	Electricity Interconnectors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps the Government is taking to support international electricity connectors.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	35661
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to increasing electricity interconnection with projects that support our energy objectives.</p><p> </p><p>A number of interconnection projects are already progressing under Ofgem’s regulatory regime1, designed to bring forward interconnection investment in the interest of GB consumers. This includes projects to France, Belgium, Norway, Denmark and Ireland, which have been assessed by Ofgem as offering over £11.8bn in consumer benefits. A second window for applications for the cap and floor project is open until 31 October and the Government is keen to see more projects coming forward that can deliver strong consumer benefits.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also supported a number of mature interconnector projects to benefit from access to European grant funding as Projects of Common Interest.</p><p> </p><p>Together these projects represent billions of pounds of infrastructure investment and aim to more than double our interconnection capacity by the early 2020s. This will make Britain more energy secure and will help lower consumer bills.</p><p> </p><p><em><strong>[1]</strong></em><em> Source, Ofgem <a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/decision-roll-out-cap-and-floor-regime-near-term-electricity-interconnectors" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/decision-roll-out-cap-and-floor-regime-near-term-electricity-interconnectors</a></em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 29/04/2016 14:13:42 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

515813

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2016
	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	Coal Fired 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 steps she is taking to keep coal plants open.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	35662
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>Decisions on plant closures are commercial matters for the plant owners. However, we recently consulted on changes to the Capacity Market, which included proposals for an early Capacity Market auction for the 2017/18 delivery year to mitigate the security of supply impact of potential early plant closures. If we go ahead with this proposal, coal plants will be eligible to participate.</p><p> </p><p>On 18 November we announced plans to close all unabated coal-fired power stations by 2025. Achieving this goal would make the UK one of the first developed countries to deliver on a commitment to take coal off the system. However, we have been clear that we would only proceed with these plans if we are confident that the shift to new gas generation can be achieved within these timescales.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 03/05/2016 12:44:30 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

515814

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2016
	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	Coal Fired Power Stations: Closures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps she is taking to ensure that the closure of coal-powered stations does not lead to electricity shortages.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	35663
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>We knew some old coal powered stations would likely be closing and we have already taken steps to ensure security of supply for the coming winters. National Grid has procured 3.6GW of reserve capacity for this coming winter. Looking further ahead, the Capacity Market is designed to drive new investment to help keep the lights on, as well as getting the best out of our existing power stations and we have recently consulted on proposals to introduce the Capacity Market a year early, from 2017/18. A response to the consultation will be published shortly</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 28/04/2016 12:38:52 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies