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533659

registered interest
date	07/07/2016
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	Department for Energy and Climate Change: Babies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what facilities are available for (a) lactating mothers and (b) the changing of babies in her Department.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	42229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s main office at 3 Whitehall Place, London has a private room available for nursing mothers. It has a baby changing table, a specified refrigerator for storing expressed milk, a chair which has been specially designed to provide support when breastfeeding or expressing milk, as well as first aid couches for resting and privacy screens. Our office in Aberdeen also has a private room available for nursing mothers which has a chair and a specified refrigerator for storing expressed milk.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/07/2016 16:27:03 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

432776

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
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	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 households in Preston constituency have gained income under the feed-in tariff in the last four years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	17815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2015 answer text <p>The table below provides the cumulative total number of domestic installations in the Preston Constituency that are confirmed on the Central Feed-in Tariff Register and marked as being domestic installations. The latest figures for 2015 go up to the end of September, with previous years’ data provided to the end of each calendar year.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><em>Photovoltaics</em></p></td><td><p><em>Micro Combined Heat and Power (CHP)</em></p></td><td><p><em>Total</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>2012</em></strong></p></td><td><p>152</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>152</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>2013</em></strong></p></td><td><p>249</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>2014</em></strong></p></td><td><p>327</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>328</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>2015 (Jan – Sept)</em></strong></p></td><td><p>387</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>388</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Data taken from Sub-regional Feed-in Tariffs statistics, with the latest figures published at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/sub-regional-feed-in-tariffs-confirmed-on-the-cfr-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/sub-regional-feed-in-tariffs-confirmed-on-the-cfr-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 02/12/2015 09:39:51 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

417627

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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	Department for Energy and Climate Change: Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when she next plans to update transparency data for ministerial expenses in her Department on the GOV.UK website.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	9400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>Transparency data for ministerial expenses up to June 2014 are published on the w<a href="http://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">ww.gov.uk</a> website at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-of-energy-climate-change&amp;publication_type=transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-of-energy-climate-change&amp;publication_type=transparency-data</a></p><p>These include ministerial travel, gifts and hospitality.</p><p>The data related to July 2014 to March 2015 is being collated and will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 11/09/2015 14:15:06 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 20709 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

390966

registered interest
date	17/07/2015
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	Department for Energy and Climate Change: Bees
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 bee hives are sited on land owned by her Department.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	7845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department of Energy and Climate Change does not have any bee hives.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/09/2015 07:52:05 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

387484

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
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: Nuclear 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 (a) seismological, (b) geological and (c) other assessments have been made of the effect of fracking on the safety of nuclear facilities at Salwick and Heysham.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	5275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>No specific studies have been carried out on the effect of fracking on the safety of nuclear facilities at Salwick and Heysham but a study was conducted in 2011/12 and consulted upon, which lead to the introduction of a “traffic light” regime for hydraulic fracturing activities, which will ensure that operations are quickly halted and reviewed if unusual levels of seismic activity are observed:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/48330/5055-preese-hall-shale-gas-fracturing-review-and-recomm.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/48330/5055-preese-hall-shale-gas-fracturing-review-and-recomm.pdf</a>.</p><p>The level of seismicity at which operations are halted has been set at a precautionary extremely low level in order that events that could be felt at the surface are avoided.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/07/2015 13:22:51 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

387026

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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	Department of Energy and Climate Change: Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, to which periodicals and newspapers her Department subscribes; how many copies of each such periodical her Department acquires; and what the cost of subscribing to such periodicals was in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	5248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department of Energy and Climate Change purchases the following newspapers each week:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Title</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Quantity</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Mail (M-F)</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Express (M-F)</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Mirror (M-F)</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Star (M-F)</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Telegraph (M-F)</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Times (M-F)</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Guardian (M-F)</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Independent (M-F)</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Sun (M-F)</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Times (M-F)</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Mail (Sat)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Express (Sat)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Mirror (Sat)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Star (Sat)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Telegraph (Sat)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Guardian (Sat)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Sun (Sat)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Independent (Sat)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Times (Sat)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FT Weekend</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunday Mirror</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Observer</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Sun on Sunday</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunday People</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunday Express</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Independent on Sunday</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Mail on Sunday</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Sunday Times</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Weekly Total</strong></p></td><td><p>143</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The total amount spent on newspapers for Financial Year 2014-15 was £10,664.25 (including VAT).</p><p>There are no central records of periodical subscriptions and associated spend.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/07/2015 09:16:24 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

385833

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
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	Department of Energy and Climate Change: Geology
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 seismologists and geologists are employed by her Department; what advice her Department sought from seismologists and geologists on fracking in Lancashire and East Sussex; what the cost of this advice was; and if she will publish the advice she received from external services.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	4288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>The Oil and Gas Authority, which became an Executive Agency of DECC on 1 April 2015, currently employs 11 geoscientists. One of the 11 geological posts is dedicated to UK onshore oil and gas activity.</p><p>Following seismic tremors experienced in 2011 after shale gas hydraulic fracturing near Blackpool, the well operator carried out geomechanical studies to determine the cause. To assist DECC in evaluating these, DECC asked three experts in the fields of seismology, induced seismicity and hydraulic fracturing to make an independent assessment of the studies. The cost of employing these three experts to undertake this work was £28,000. Results of the analysis, published in 2012, can be found on the Government website via the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/48330/5055-preese-hall-shale-gas-fracturing-review-and-recomm.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/48330/5055-preese-hall-shale-gas-fracturing-review-and-recomm.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 02/07/2015 13:55:48 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 10610 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

223936

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
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	Nuclear Power: North West
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 jobs his Department supports (a) directly and (b) indirectly in the nuclear supply chain in (i) the North West, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) Preston.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mark Hendrick
uin	225667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2015 answer text <p>The Nuclear Workforce Assessment 2014 report published by Cogent on behalf of the Nuclear Energy Skills Alliance (NESA) estimated that the number of total jobs in the Nuclear sector including the supply chain in the regions referred to are as follows:</p><p>The Northwest: 13,230 Full Time Equivalents (FTE’s)</p><p>Lancashire: 3,530 FTE’s</p><p>Preston: 1,350 FTE’s</p><p><br>A further 7,100 FTE’s are employed in nuclear related defence jobs in the Northwest.</p><p>Through facilitating the development of new nuclear and oversight of an ambitious decommissioning programme as well as industry’s own plans to extend the life of existing nuclear power stations, we are action to safe guard these jobs and future growth when required. It works closely with skills bodies and industry to support the development of the required training programmes and job roles required to meet the sector’s needs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 05/03/2015 14:54:21 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

222481

registered interest
date	20/02/2015
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	Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil
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 the Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil has spent on legal advice to date.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mark Hendrick
uin	224817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>The Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil has spent £2,760 to date on legal advice.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 26/02/2015 14:05:01 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 46557 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

91717

registered interest
date	12/09/2014
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	Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil
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 budget is for the Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil for each of the years 2014-15 to 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mark Hendrick
uin	209161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The 2014-15 budget for the Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil is currently £1.8m, which covers an office of 15 staff as well as programme funding for activities including research, communications and public engagement .</p><p>Current plans for 15-16 are for £1.8m, but are subject to DECC’s internal business planning process. Future years will be subject to Spending Review discussions with the Treasury on DECC’s overall baseline.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 13/10/2014 12:54:15 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick