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date	11/09/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Tyne and Wear Metro: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department's plans are for funding of the Tyne and Wear Metro after the current funding arrangement ends in 2021.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	9734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Transport is currently in discussions with Nexus about funding options for the renewal of the Metro fleet. These discussions include consideration of revenue and capital support for the existing network beyond the current funding arrangement.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 19/09/2017 09:54:43 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

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date	09/09/2015
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	Renewable Energy: 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, how many tonnes of carbon dioxide were displaced by renewable (a) electricity and (b) heat generation in (i) the UK, (ii) England, (iii) Scotland and (iv) Wales in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	9734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows how many tonnes of carbon dioxide were displaced by renewable electricity in each of the UK, England, Scotland and Wales in 2014.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>UK</p></td><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>Wales</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Carbon dioxide displaced by renewable</p><p>electricity generation</p><p>(million tonnes)</p></td><td><p> </p><p>41.5</p></td><td><p> </p><p>26.0</p></td><td><p> </p><p>12.3</p></td><td><p> </p><p>2.2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>Carbon emissions displaced by renewable electricity generation have been calculated as renewable electricity generation multiplied by the average emissions factor for electricity supplied by fossil fuel stations in 2014. A breakdown of electricity generation for the UK countries can be found in Energy Trends table ET 6.1 at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-trends-section-6-renewables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-trends-section-6-renewables</a></p><p>Carbon dioxide emissions factors for electricity supplied can be found in table 5D of the Digest of UK Energy Statistics, 2015, available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-chapter-5-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-chapter-5-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes</a></p><p>Information on the carbon savings from the total renewable heat produced in the UK is not available. Chapter 6 of the Digest of UK Energy Statistics provides more information on renewable heat, and shows that 2,730 ktoe of renewable fuels were used to generate heat in 2014. The full renewable energy chapter is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/renewable-sources-of-energy-chapter-6-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/renewable-sources-of-energy-chapter-6-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes</a></p><p><br><br></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 22/09/2015 13:04:21 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig