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93171

registered interest
date	14/10/2014
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	Fossil Fuels
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 Government's policy is on stranded assets in the fossil fuel sector; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	210565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>There are established processes through which potential risks from stranded assets in the fossil fuels sector are managed.</p><p>As recently as 8 July 2014 the Governor of the Bank of England wrote to the Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee on this issue saying that the Bank monitors risks to financial stability associated with a ‘carbon bubble’ through its regular gathering of information on financial stability risks.</p><p>Furthermore companies are requested, through the Companies Act 2006, to report on their principal risks as part of their annual report &amp; accounts. In the case of listed companies, the company must include, to the extent necessary to understand the business, the main trends and factors likely to affect the future development, performance and position of the company’s business.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 21/10/2014 16:33:21 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

93176

registered interest
date	14/10/2014
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	Fossil Fuels
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 proportion of existing global fossil fuel reserves that can be burned in order to achieve Government's international policy of limiting global temperature rises to below two degrees Celsius; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	210525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>In 2013 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated that, if we are more likely than not to limit global average temperature rise to 2°C, the remaining permissible carbon emissions are 305 billion tonnes of carbon for the period 2011 to 2100, taking into account both CO<sub>2</sub> and non-CO<sub>2 </sub>forcing factors. Carbon within existing proven reserves of conventional and unconventional coal, oil, and gas were estimated by the IPCC in 2011 to be 1,053 billion tonnes.</p><p>Burning a greater proportion of fossil fuel reserves could be consistent with the 2°C goal if there was significant future global uptake of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies, to markedly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel plants at source. The Government’s CCS programme aims to bring forward this technology at a commercial scale in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 21/10/2014 14:14:54 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

92520

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
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	Offshore Industry: North Sea
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which companies have been granted field allowances for oil and gas production in the North Sea in the last 12 months; and what estimate he has made of the value of each such allowance to each such company over a five-year period.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	210036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>Oil fields can qualify for field allowances when they receive initial or revised development consent. They are not granted to companies. The participators in each field that qualifies for a field allowance will hold a share of the total allowance for the field which may be activated by production income from that field. We do not track field allowances by company.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 20/10/2014 11:00:48 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

92522

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
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	Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what information his Department holds on the extent of contributions to the UN Green Climate Fund made by other European countries to date; if he will make it his policy that the UK should undertake to contribute at least one billion US dollars to the UN Green Climate Fund in advance of the COP20 climate talks in Lima in December 2014; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	210004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2014 answer text <p>We understand that 8 European countries have announced commitments totalling up to US $2.2 billion - including France, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Czech Republic and Luxemburg. We also welcome announcements from developing countries – South Korea and Mexico recently announced pledges of $100m and $10m respectively.</p><p>We are currently finalising the details of a UK pledge. The UK recognises the importance of a successful initial resource mobilisation process, and is keen for the Fund to become fully operational as soon as possible. We aim to pledge before the Lima UNFCCC Conference of the Parties.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 17/10/2014 13:35:16 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

77931

registered interest
date	15/07/2014
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	Solar Power
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 his Department has made of the additional solar PV expected to be deployed to 2020-21 as a result of the measures proposed in the latest feed-in tariff consultation.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	205721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p>We have used scenario-based analysis to illustrate a range of potential outcomes under each policy. For the changes to the FITs degression mechanism to support midscale building-mounted solar, the scenarios for deployment in 2020/21 are set out in Table 5 here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/310432/2014-05-13_-_FITs_solar_consultation_IA_-_FOR_PUBLICATION.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/310432/2014-05-13_-_FITs_solar_consultation_IA_-_FOR_PUBLICATION.pdf</a>.</p><p>For increasing the maximum capacity ceiling to 10MW for community projects, the range of deployment under the scenarios is set out in Table 3 here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/310416/impact_assessment.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/310416/impact_assessment.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 01/09/2014 09:32:17 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

77932

registered interest
date	15/07/2014
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	Renewables Obligation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, for what reason a Renewable Obligation Certificate banding review for cuts to the large-scale PV Renewable Obligation band in 2015 and 2016 was ruled out as an option in the recent Renewables Obligation consultation.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	205719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government may carry out a banding review of RO support in England and Wales for any technology at any time if certain legislative conditions are met. As indicated in our consultation document and impact assessment, it is not clear that any of the conditions are met to trigger a banding review of solar support at this time. These are available on DECC's web page:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-changes-to-financial-support-for-solar-pv" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-changes-to-financial-support-for-solar-pv</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 17/07/2014 16:11:30 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

77933

registered interest
date	15/07/2014
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	Solar Power
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 his Department is taking to deliver the Government's aim of 20 GWp of solar PV by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	205720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government set out the measures it intends to take to promote deployment of solar PV in the UK Solar PV Strategy published in April:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/302049/uk_solar_pv_strategy_part_2.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/302049/uk_solar_pv_strategy_part_2.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The Final EMR Delivery Plan indicated that about 11-12 GWp of solar PV could be deployed in UK by the end of the decade. Scope for more ambitious deployment, perhaps approaching 20GW early in the next decade, will be predicated on a number of factors being fulfilled, notably the sector moving towards grid parity over the next few years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 22/07/2014 11:55:15 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

77950

registered interest
date	15/07/2014
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	Renewables Obligation
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 total amount of Levy Control Framework budget spent on the Renewables Obligation in 2013-14; and what his forecast is for Renewables Obligation spend in 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	205847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>Total expenditure on the Renewables Obligation (RO) in 2013/14 is estimated to be approximately £2.6 billion. This is calculated by multiplying the provisional obligation for the year, 61.5 million ROCs, by the buy-out price for that year, £42.02. The final obligation, and therefore overall spend, will not be confirmed until October 2014.</p><p>Forecast expenditure on the RO in 2014/15 is approximately £3.1 billion. This is based on the provisional obligation for the year, 72.3 million ROCs, multiplied by this year’s buy-out price, £43.30.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 22/07/2014 14:34:05 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

77951

registered interest
date	15/07/2014
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, what assessment he has made of National Audit Office analysis indicating that £29 million will be available for Contracts for Difference contracts in 2015-16; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	205848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>Indicative CfD budgets, including for Contracts for Difference contracts in 2015-16, will be published later this month.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 21/07/2014 16:06:43 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

77952

registered interest
date	15/07/2014
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	Solar Power: Renewables Obligation
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 annual saving to the Levy Control Framework budget from closure of the Renewables Obligation to large-scale solar from April 2015; what that saving is as a proportion of that budget in (a) 2016, (b) 2017, (c) 2018, (d) 2019 and (e) 2020; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	205849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p>In its consultation issued on 13<sup>th</sup> May 2014, DECC has proposed closing the Renewables Obligation (RO) to new solar PV capacity above 5MW from 31 March 2015. We consider this to be necessary because large-scale solar PV is deploying more rapidly than expected. This poses a substantial risk to our ability to manage the levy control framework budget, and therefore our ability to minimise costs of renewables deployment for consumers.</p><p> </p><p>The impact assessment published alongside the consultation set out the projected impact of proposed intervention on deployment and spend. Option 1 below assumes no action; option 2 is the proposed intervention:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-changes-to-financial-support-for-solar-pv" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-changes-to-financial-support-for-solar-pv</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 01/09/2014 10:21:14 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas