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	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

449367

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	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	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 estimate she has made of how much dispatchable electricity capacity will be lost in 2016 due to planned power station closures.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	24967
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>It is estimated that the total conventional capacity installed in 2016/17 will be 58.1 – 59.1GW[1]. This represents closures of around 0.5GW - 1.8GW[2] between 2015/16 and 2016/17 and reflects the July 2015 Future Energy Scenarios outlook.</p><p>However, for 2016/17, National Grid have already secured 3.6GW of capacity within their Contingency Balancing Reserve, in which additional power stations are held to provide security in times of system stress. This extra capacity will help us to ensure we meet the GB 3 hour LOLE reliability standard and will be sufficient to maintain security of supply even in the toughest system conditions.</p><p>In addition to the Contingency Balancing Reserve, from 2018, the Capacity Market will ensure that retiring plant can be replaced by new investment by providing additional secure investment for both existing and new electricity generators</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] As presented in Ofgem’s Capacity Assessment 2015, including Nuclear.</p><p>[2] Figures presented in this response are not de-rated to reflect expected availability at Winter peak.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 04/02/2016 14:49:30 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

449368

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	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
	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 total dispatchable electricity capacity was in January (a) 2013, (b) 2014, (c) 2015 and (d) 2016; and what estimate she has made of that capacity in January (i) 2017, (ii) 2018 and (iii) 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	24968
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>Dispatchable electricity, as defined by National Grid, comprises of generation that can be switched on and off at relatively short notice. This does not include substantial capacity in the GB mix such as nuclear and wind generation.</p><p>The attached table outlines both expected Pre-Winter dispatchable capacity[1], as per the relevant National Grid Winter Outlook publications and the 2015 Future Energy Scenarios Slow Progression projection of available capacity.</p><p><br>Post-2015/16 figures represent the Slow Progression July 2015 outlook of generation background. We take energy security very seriously and monitor the commercial outlook of supply frequently alongside National Grid and Ofgem.</p><p>The trend of declining conventional capacity has arisen due to margins in preceding years being unnecessarily large because of the recession. The drop off in capacity is a symptom of returning to the kinds of margins we were used to pre-recession and to reflect improvements in energy efficiency as well as increasing levels of renewable technologies coming on to the system.</p><p>Our priority is to ensure that British families and business have access to secure affordable energy supplies that they can rely on. National Grid have a number of tools to ensure a secure supply of electricity including Contingency Balancing Reserve, in which additional power stations are held to provide security in times of system stress. This extra capacity will help us to ensure we meet the GB 3 hour LOLE reliability standard and will be sufficient to maintain security of supply even in the toughest system conditions.</p><p>In addition to the Contingency Balancing Reserve, from 2018, the Capacity Market will ensure that retiring plant can be replaced by new investment by providing additional secure investment for both existing and new electricity generators</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 04/02/2016 16:13:40 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom attachment 1 file name Winter Outlook Figures.doc.docx title Table providing capacity figures
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies