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156541

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
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 Climate Fund
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how it is intended that the proposed £650 million United Kingdom contribution to a global green climate fund will be spent; and what role the United Kingdom will have in its disbursement.
tabling member printed	Lord Renwick of Clifton
uin	HL2964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>The Green Climate Fund is aiming to spend 50% of funds helping developing countries to limit or reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, and 50% helping them adapt to the adverse effects of climate change (with the aim that at least 50% of the adaptation funding goes to the most vulnerable countries).</p><p>The Fund is governed and supervised by a Board of 24 members, composed of an equal number of members from developing and developed countries that will have responsibility for funding decisions.</p><p>The UK holds one of the Green Climate Fund Board seats, meaning we will be fully involved in disbursement decisions.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 27/11/2014 12:41:21 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	3230 label Biography information for Lord Renwick of Clifton

156638

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
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	Energy: Prices
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 11 June 2014 to Question 198624, by which process his Department estimates wholesale (a) electricity and (b) gas prices.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	215253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>Wholesale prices reported in Question 198624 represented the average of each days “day ahead” price for electricity and gas over the named months. These are based on market prices provided to us on a commercial basis by Marex Spectron and ICIS Heren for electricity and gas respectively.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 26/11/2014 14:50:41 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

156639

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
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	Energy: Prices
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 11 June 2014 to Question 198624, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's estimate of wholesale (a) electricity and (b) gas prices in each month between January 2007 and November 2014.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	215252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>Monthly estimates of wholesale gas and electricity prices will be placed in the Library as requested.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 26/11/2014 14:51:10 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

156736

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
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	Flexible Working
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 and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	215184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department of Energy and Climate Change does not hold centrally the records of individual requests for flexible working. To identify the number of applications would involve contacting every line manager within the department and would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 25/11/2014 16:41:49 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

156236

registered interest
date	18/11/2014
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	Biofuels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will estimate the amount of carbon emitted to the UK atmosphere by subsidised generation of (a) heat by biomass boilers and (b) electricity by biomass power stations in the last 30 years.
tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
uin	214933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>The Renewable Heat Incentive is subject to on-going evaluation and monitoring which has not yet completed and so emissions data are not available at present from subsidised biomass boilers used to generate heat. DECC will also be conducting a detailed monitoring and evaluation programme for biomass heat systems and has recently issued a tender to establish the methodology of how this could be done.</p><p>In addition DECC is introducing mandatory biomass sustainability and greenhouse gas (GHG) criteria for both its heat and power support schemes which will mean biomass will be required to deliver a minimum 60% GHG emission saving relative to the EU fossil fuel average.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 26/11/2014 14:49:12 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd previous answer version 29639 answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer

156237

registered interest
date	18/11/2014
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	Warm Home Discount Scheme: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will make additional funds available to allow the Northern Ireland Executive to extend the Warm Home Discount Scheme to Northern Ireland; what recent steps he has taken to encourage the setting up of the Warm Home Discount Scheme in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
uin	214950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>The Warm Home Discount is an obligation on energy suppliers operating in the GB-wide market for domestic customers.</p><p>The scheme does not apply in Northern Ireland as fuel poverty is devolved to the Northern Ireland Executive, which decides its own fuel poverty objectives and policies.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 26/11/2014 14:52:07 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

156240

registered interest
date	18/11/2014
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	Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether any (a) external contractors and (b) consultancy companies engaged by his Department have charged more than the initial price agreed for their services since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Islwyn
tabling member printed	Chris Evans
uin	214984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally because procurement and contract management responsibility is devolved to policy teams in DECC. Changes of price often occur when there is need for additional services. This involves negotiation will the contractor and is documented as a contract variation. The price for consultancy services is usually based upon agreed rates following supplier selection via competitive tender of the Crown Commercial Services ConsultancyOne framework. The price may change according to many variables depending on the nature of the work and circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 24/11/2014 15:46:32 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

156241

registered interest
date	18/11/2014
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	Biofuels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which official in his Department has lead responsibility for solid biomass fuel classifications.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Mrs Cheryl Gillan
uin	214972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not have responsibility for solid biomass fuel classifications.</p><p>The development of solid biomass fuel classifications was an initiative of the industry in Europe to develop a common terminology and approaches for fuel classifications published through the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN).</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 21/11/2014 14:34:12 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

156242

registered interest
date	18/11/2014
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	Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment his Department made of the implications for his decision to pay subcontracted staff in his Department the living wage of the EU public procurement regime as set out in Directive 2004/18/EC and 2004/17/EC.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	Margaret Curran
uin	214971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced back in April that the department would pay all of its employees the Living Wage from 1 April 2014. Legal advice was sought during consideration and implementation of this policy. At the time no implications in respect of the EU public procurement regime were identified.</p><p>Payment of the Living Wage may fall foul of European Community law, in particular the Posted Workers Directive (PWD). This point rests on whether payment of the Living Wage is mandated, in which case there is a risk of being in breach of the PWD, or achieved through voluntary agreement. Since from a contractual perspective the changes needed mutual consent, there was no option for DECC other than to negotiate with suppliers to gain their agreement. We are satisfied therefore that this policy is compliant with EC law.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 25/11/2014 16:41:09 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	3982 label Biography information for Margaret Curran

156243

registered interest
date	18/11/2014
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	Electricity Generation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what limits he is setting on capacity market payments made through the Levy Control Framework.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	214893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>The first payment for the main Capacity Market scheme will be made in 2018 – although payments under the transitional arrangements will commence in 2016. Updated Capacity Market budgets will be set for each capacity year following the outcome of the auctions for that year. Each auction will have a price cap to limit payments and protect consumers. The price cap for the first auction to be held in December 2014 is £75/kW.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 24/11/2014 16:41:17 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead