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229373

registered interest
date	24/03/2015
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
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 the estimates contained in the OECD report, Nuclear Energy and Renewables: System Effects in Low-carbon Electricity Systems, 2012 of the additional system costs of onshore and offshore wind and solar power if they reach 10 per cent and 30 per cent penetration of the UK electricity market.
tabling member constituency	Hitchin and Harpenden
tabling member printed	Mr Peter Lilley
uin	228949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 26/03/2015 10:11:40 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	68 label Biography information for Lord Lilley

228686

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
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	Geothermal Power: Research
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 18 March (HL5377), what action they are taking to progress discussions with the government of Germany following their letter to that government last year; and how many meetings between United Kingdom and German officials have taken place on this subject since then.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL5868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>DECC officials, working closely with Cornwall County Council, continue to engage with their German counterparts to explore research options for the potential testing of geothermal resources. The main exchanges have been through email correspondence and by telephone.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 23/03/2015 17:02:55 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

227515

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
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	Carbon Emissions
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 how much cavity wall insulation has contributed to reduction of carbon dioxide emissions according to the Kyoto agreement protocols in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	227634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not measure carbon savings per year from individual types of energy efficiency measure across the UK.</p><p>However, estimated carbon savings from energy efficiency policies are reported in our Updated Emissions Projections, which can be found on the government’s website:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/energy-and-emissions-projections" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/energy-and-emissions-projections</a>”</p><p>Breakdown of the estimated number of UK dwelling insulated each year from 2010:</p><p>From : <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/green-deal-and-energy-company-obligation-eco-statistics#quarterly-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/green-deal-and-energy-company-obligation-eco-statistics#quarterly-statistics</a></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong><em>Year </em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>Number of cavity wall installations</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2010 to March 2011</p></td><td><p>600,000*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2011 to March 2012</p></td><td><p>660,000*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2012 to March 2013</p></td><td><p>610,000*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2013 to March 2014</p></td><td><p>400,000*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The March 2015 cavity wall insulation installation statistics are still to be calculated</p><p><em> *This includes delivery through Government schemes and new build properties.</em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 23/03/2015 16:56:44 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

227288

registered interest
date	13/03/2015
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	Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what amount his Department and its agencies spent on research and development in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion such spending was of total departmental spending.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	227558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>Information on the total amount of expenditure by the Department of Energy and Climate Change on both research and development and the total Departmental spending on services is publically available on gov.uk as part of the Country and Regional Analysis (CRA) statistical release. This information covers 2009-10 through to 2013-14 and can be found at the following web link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/country-and-regional-analysis-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/country-and-regional-analysis-2014</a></p><p>This data can be accessed by using either the ‘interactive tables’ or the ‘database’.</p><p>The CRA is compiled from Departmental spending data submitted to HM Treasury on services, split by sub-functions. The data provided, uses internationally-agreed definitions called the Classifications of the Functions of Government (UN COFOG). These functions include and separately identify expenditure on various Research and Development activities.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 18/03/2015 18:01:47 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

227290

registered interest
date	13/03/2015
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: Off-payroll 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 staff in his Department and its executive agencies and associated bodies were engaged off-payroll in each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	227547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>The number of people engaged off payroll by the Department of Energy &amp; Climate Change (DECC) and the Non Departmental Public Bodies, for which it is responsible, are published each year in its Annual report and Accounts. These are available on our website and can be found by following the links set out below.</p><p><strong>2013-14</strong> (Average number of persons employed) (Page 96)</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>2012-13</strong> (Average number of persons employed) (Page 150)</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-and-accounts-2012-13" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-and-accounts-2012-13</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>2011-12</strong> (Table 5 Staff in post) (Page 232)</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-and-accounts-2011-to-2012--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-and-accounts-2011-to-2012--2</a></p><p><strong>2010-11</strong> (Average number of persons employed) (Page 96)</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-2010-to-2011" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-2010-to-2011</a></p><p> </p><p>The tables in 2011-12 also includes totals for all previous years since DECC was created in 2008.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 18/03/2015 18:02:19 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

227120

registered interest
date	12/03/2015
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	Housing: Energy
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 homes in (a) York Central constituency and (b) City of York local authority area were retrofitted with cavity wall insulation, lagging or other measures to conserve energy in 2010 and each subsequent year.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Sir Hugh Bayley
uin	227376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not publish a breakdown of measures installed by measure type, geography nor by Government schemes prior to the start of ECO. However, the provisional number of measures delivered under ECO in York Central constituency was 1,332, up to end September 2014. In York Unitary Authority there were 2,074 measures delivered under ECO, up to end September 2014.</p><p>The statistics referred to can be found in Table 1.11a and 1.11b at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/green-deal-energy-company-obligation-eco-and-insulation-levels-in-great-britain-quarterly-report-to-september-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/green-deal-energy-company-obligation-eco-and-insulation-levels-in-great-britain-quarterly-report-to-september-2014</a></p><p>The next quarterly release covering the period up to the end of December 2014 will be published on 19<sup>th</sup> March 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 19/03/2015 11:35:00 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

227121

registered interest
date	12/03/2015
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	Microgeneration: York
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 homes in (a) York Central constituency and (b) City of York local authority area were microgeneration energy producers using solar or wind power in 2010 and in each subsequent year.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Sir Hugh Bayley
uin	227377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>The number of domestic solar PV and wind turbines installations confirmed on the Central Feed-in Tariff Register in each year since 2010, in York Central parliamentary constituency and in York Unitary Authority was as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>York Central parliamentary constituency</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>York Unitary Authority</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><em>Solar PV</em></p></td><td><p><em>Wind turbines</em></p></td><td><p><em>Solar PV</em></p></td><td><p><em>Wind turbines</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>2010</em></strong></p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>2011</em></strong></p></td><td><p>160</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>570</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>2012</em></strong></p></td><td><p>675</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1,493</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>2013</em></strong></p></td><td><p>863</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1,945</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>2014</em></strong></p></td><td><p>956</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2,225</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The number of microgeneration installations confirmed on the CFR as of the latest quarter are published at:</p><p><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 Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 24/03/2015 17:13:42 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

227122

registered interest
date	12/03/2015
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	Electricity: Meters
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 homes in (a) York Central constituency and (b) City of York local authority area have a prepayment electricity meter.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Sir Hugh Bayley
uin	227378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>DECC do not collect or hold data at this level of disaggregation.</p><p>From DECC’s domestic meter point data, there were 77,000 domestic standard electricity meters and an additional 10,000 economy 7 meters in the York Unitary Authority in 2013. Data is not published for the York Central constituency:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sub-national-electricity-consumption-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sub-national-electricity-consumption-data</a></p><p>DECC estimate that 17% of standard electricity customers in Yorkshire, used prepayment meters in the latest quarter. This data is only available at the public electricity supply (PES) region level. Data is not available for the York central constituency or the York Unitary Authority Area:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-price-stastics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-price-stastics.</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 19/03/2015 11:37:15 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

226594

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
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	Wind Power
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 onshore wind capacity for repowering farms (a) received planning approval and (b) was rejected in each year since 2009; and how many planning applications for repowering onshore wind farms were (i) approved and (ii) rejected in each year since 2009.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	227174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>The Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) does not routinely capture information on planning applications from renewable electricity projects seeking to repower. The table below sets out the number and capacity of onshore wind projects that received or were refused planning permission in each year since 2009 and whose operator site names quoted in the REPD indicate that they are repower projects:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p><strong><em>Approved</em></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong><em>Refused</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><em>No</em></p></td><td><p><em>Cap MW)</em></p></td><td><p><em>No</em></p></td><td><p><em>Cap (MW)</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>2009</em></strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>2010</em></strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>2011</em></strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>2012</em></strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>2013</em></strong></p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>2014</em></strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>2015</em></strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>Totals</em></strong></p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 19/03/2015 11:33:23 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd previous answer version 50533 answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

226220

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
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	Energy
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 cost to the public purse was of the Government's advertising campaign encouraging consumers to switch energy providers.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Murphy
uin	227021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>As the campaign is still ongoing the actual final spends are not yet available, but we have allocated a budget for the Power to Switch Campaign as follows:</p><ul><li>£620,000 to develop, produce and supply advertisements;</li><li>£4,100,000 to buy advertising space (including agency media buying and communications planning fees).</li></ul><p>The Power to Switch Campaign encourages people to switch supplier and save money by visiting:</p><p><a href="http://www.beanenergyshopper.com/" target="_blank">www.BeAnEnergyShopper.com</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 18/03/2015 17:58:08 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	595 label Biography information for Mr Jim Murphy