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1010289

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Solar Power: Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many electricity suppliers offer power purchase agreements for the procurement of power from solar generators on domestic homes.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
	tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	192692
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>Power purchase agreements (PPAs) are private agreements and suppliers are not required to report on whether they are offering PPAs to domestic solar generators.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/11/2018 14:48:50 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

1010290

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Energy: Meters
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the average cost is of raising a second export meter point administration number in domestic homes for the purposes of metered export; and on which parties such costs fall.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
	tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	192693
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>Distribution Network Operators have confirmed that they provide meter point administration numbers free of charge to domestic homes in these circumstances. They have also confirmed that they recover the costs of doing so through network charges that are passed on by suppliers to end consumers.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 28/11/2018 08:40:01 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

1016389

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if he will suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia until an independent international inquiry can establish culpability for violations of international humanitarian law on all sides of the Yemeni conflict.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
	tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	196649
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria provides a thorough risk assessment framework for considering all applications to export military goods to Saudi Arabia. We will not grant a licence if do so would be inconsistent with these Criteria. The policy remains as announced to Parliament in a Written Ministerial Statement on 25 March 2014:</p><p><a href="https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm140325/wmstext/140325m0001.htm#14032566000018" target="_blank">https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm140325/wmstext/140325m0001.htm#14032566000018</a> and updated with an additional policy, as announced in a Written Ministerial Statement on 13 September 2018:</p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-09-13/HCWS957/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-09-13/HCWS957/</a> .</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 04/12/2018 17:05:58 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

1019510

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Wind Power: Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the oral contribution of 21 November 2018 by the Minister of State for Climate Change and Industry to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee on Carbon Capture and Storage, Question 229, if he will identify the evidence on which the Minister based her statement that onshore wind cost-comparisons are not necessarily particularly accurate.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
	tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198142
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s most recent assessment of levelised costs for a range of technologies was published in 2016. We are currently undertaking a review of our evidence on levelised costs of electricity generation.</p><p> </p><p>The cost of developing, building and operating any onshore or offshore wind farm will vary according to site specific characteristics. Levelised costs are a generic central estimate which take into account the range of likely costs associated with developing projects of a particular technology class but are not in themselves project specific.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 10/12/2018 17:10:35 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

1019512

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Wind Power: Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the relative cost of onshore wind as a form of energy production compared to other forms of production.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
	tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>BEIS’s most recent published assessment of electricity generation costs can be found in the generation costs report (2016)[1] which covers both renewable and non-renewable technologies, including onshore wind. We are currently undertaking a review of our evidence on levelised costs of electricity generation.</p><p>[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-electricity-generation-costs-november-2016</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 10/12/2018 17:08:30 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

1019514

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Electricity Generation: Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish the (a) most expensive and (b) cheapest form of electricity to produce.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
	tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198144
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>We are currently undertaking a review of our evidence on levelised costs of electricity generation, which will be published in due course. BEIS’s most recent published assessment of electricity generation costs can be found in the generation costs report (2016)[1]</p><p> </p><p>[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-electricity-generation-costs-november-2016</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 10/12/2018 17:09:56 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

1020101

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Energy: Public Opinion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker, which types of energy are the (a) most and (b) least popular among the public.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
	tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198936
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy publishes the quarterly Public Attitudes Tracker, covering perceptions on a range of the Department’s policy areas.</p><p> </p><p>The latest report was published on 8 November 2018 using survey data collected between 19 - 30 September 2018. The report can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/beis-public-attitudes-tracker-wave-27" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/beis-public-attitudes-tracker-wave-27</a>.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 11/12/2018 17:39:28 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

1020717

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Nuclear Installations: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many inspectors have been appointed to carry out functions previously administered by Euratom since June 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
	tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	199758
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Office for Nuclear Regulation’s (ONR) recruitment target for the first phase of the UK State System of Accounting for and Control of Nuclear Material project has been met, with 15 safeguards officers currently in place and undergoing training to become safeguards inspectors. ONR is confident it will have the necessary number of inspectors in place to enable the UK to meet its international safeguards, and non-proliferation, obligations when Euratom arrangements cease to apply in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 11/12/2018 17:40:02 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

1027593

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Fracking: Earthquakes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, on what date the Oil and Gas Authority introduced the (a) traffic light system for monitoring seismic activity as a result of fracking and (b) the reduction in shut down time for fracking rigs from three days to 18 hours.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
	tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	203198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/12/2018 answer text <p>The Traffic Light System was introduced by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and was announced in a Written Ministerial Statement of 13 December 2012 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/written-ministerial-statement-by-edward-davey-exploration-for-shale-gas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/written-ministerial-statement-by-edward-davey-exploration-for-shale-gas</a>).</p><p>It was adopted on the advice of three independent scientists who conducted an expert review of information available following seismic events at Preese Hall near Blackpool. The independent Oil and Gas Authority are now the regulatory body responsible for monitoring induced seismicity at hydraulic fracturing sites.</p><p>The expert review recommended that operations should be paused if an event was detected above a precautionary threshold of a magnitude 0.5 but did not specify a pause period. Before hydraulic fracturing operations can commence, a Hydraulic Fracture Plan must be agreed between the operator and regulators and a minimum pause of 18 hours is required following an event above this threshold. This pause period has been in place for all hydraulic fracture plans so far and has been applied during the regulation of operations at Preston New Road.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 31/12/2018 14:05:32 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

1027595

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Fracking: Risk Assessment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the level of risk of fracking to (a) aquifers and (b) gas leakage at the surface.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
	tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	203199
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government has been clear that the development of domestic energy sources such as shale gas must be safe and environmentally sound. The UK has a robust regulatory system which provides a comprehensive regime for exploratory activities.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency has carried out an assessment of the environmental risks associated with hydraulic fracturing and the measures that are needed to ensure that the local environment is protected. Based on this, the Environment Agency has developed and published detailed guidance setting out the conditions that fracking operations must meet.</p><p> </p><p>Businesses proposing to explore for oil and gas using hydraulic fracturing require environmental permits from the Environment Agency, which are subject to a detailed site-specific assessment. The permits set legally binding conditions on how activities are carried out so that the local environment is protected. The permit requires that the groundwater, surface water and air quality is monitored before, during and after operations. Extraction of shale gas takes place well below the aquifers that provide drinking water, which are usually located up to few hundred metres below ground. No fracturing is permitted less than 1,000 metres below the surface.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency carries out regular inspections, audits and unannounced spot checks to ensure compliance with the environmental permit.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 31/12/2018 14:05:45 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead