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51 records in UK in 2015
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
The Government is committed to cost-effective decarbonisation of our electricity supply and to protecting consumer bills by controlling costs under the levy control framework. Levy control framework projections published in July showed a significant overs...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
Today my hon Friend the Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change (Andrea Leadsom) has made the following statement. The Government is committed to cost-effective decarbonisation of our electricity supply and to protecting consumer bills by controll...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many press or public relations officers are employed by (a) Ofgem, (b) the Oil and Gas Authority, (c) the Civil Nuclear Police Authority, (d) the Coal Authority, (e) the Committee on Climate
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans the Government has to (a) provide financial support and (b) conclude and sign long-term contracts prior to construction in order to achieve the capital investment in energy storage te
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps she is taking to ensure that the UK meets its EU renewable heat target for 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps she has taken to ensure that the National Infrastructure Commission gives priority to energy efficiency programmes in its investment decisions.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions she has had with energy suppliers on the effect of pre-payment meter tariffs on low-income households' energy costs.
United Kingdom · House of Lords · 16 December 2015
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will continue to honour the commitment of the Coalition Government to publish an Annual Energy Statement, including estimated impacts of energy and climate policies on energy prices and bills, last published in
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will bring forward proposals to regulate the energy market to allow residents to take their energy tariffs with them when they move property.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment she has made of the total projected expenditure on (a) the feed-in-tariff scheme, (b) contracts for difference, (c) the Renewable Heat Incentive and (d) the capacity market mecha
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what wholesale price and carbon price forecast scenarios her Department uses when forecasting total projected expenditure of the Levy Control Framework.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households in (a) Birmingham, Northfield constituency, (b) the West Midlands and (c) the UK have prepayment meters; and what the change in the number of such meters has been in each of
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate her Department has made of the total (a) number and (b) payments made from feed-in tariff schemes in each year since 2010; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment she has made of the potential effect on consumer energy bills of using daylight saving time all year.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will develop a carbon capture and storage strategy for energy intensive industries.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment she has made of the effect of the Government's decision to withdraw £1 billion in funding from carbon capture and storage projects on the future of energy-intensive industries in
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether support for energy-intensive industries is part of the Northern Powerhouse agenda; and what assessment the Government has made of the importance of carbon capture and storage for the fu
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether the feed-in tariff scheme will be paused in January 2015; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many legal challenges have been made against her Department related to renewable energy policy in the last year.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what level of actual or projected overspend against original projections of expenditure under the Levy Control Framework she has identified for each year from 2014 to 2018; and in which of those
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much overspend against original estimates within the levy control framework has arisen from variations in (a) performance of offshore wind, (b) levels between strike price and reference pric
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government why they afforded community energy schemes less than one month’s notice for the implementation of changes to the tax rules, but allowed a phasing out of Enterprise Investment Scheme relief for all generation projects over a
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what evidence they have of misuse of the Enterprise Investment Scheme for community energy projects that contributed to their decision to withdraw the scheme for those purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the announcement by the Prime Minister at the UN climate change conference in Paris on 30 November, how much from the public purse has been allocated to Mission Innovation to a
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that landlords in the private rented sector comply with the requirement for properties to be a minimum of energy efficiency rating E by April 2017.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he plans to take to require social landlords to improve the energy efficiency of their housing stock.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 3.23 of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, what assessment he has made of the effect of removing entitlement to social investment tax relief from community energy organisations
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps she is taking to safeguard gas and electricity supplies in the event of a terrorist attack.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what progress her Department expects the UK to make towards its obligation to deliver 15 per cent of energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020 in (a) 2016, (b) 2017, (c) 2018, (d) 2019 a
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps she plans to take to improve home energy efficiency.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what targets the Government has set for improving the energy efficiency of low-income homes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to paragraph 2.31 of her Department's policy conclusions: Early Learning Project and Small-scale Behaviour Trials, relating to the Smart Metering Implementation Programme, publish
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps the Government is taking to help create renewable energy industry jobs in Dundee.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will discuss with her ministerial colleagues in other departments (a) reducing UK support for fossil fuels overseas and (b) ensuring that support for energy in developing countries is dir
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what forecast her Department has made of the level of potential underspend on the (a) domestic and (b) non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive in 2015-16.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether she plans to review the assessment principles on imperative reasons of overriding public interest in big energy planning projects.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when she plans to publish her Department's response to the consultation on a review of the feed-in tariff scheme.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
I am writing to report discussions at the Energy Council held under the Luxembourg Presidency which I attended in Brussels on 26 November 2015.Speaking for the Commission Vice-President Sefcovic outlined the first annual report on the State of the Energy ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
Today my hon Friend the Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change (Andrea Leadsom) has made the following statement.I am writing to report discussions at the Energy Council held under the Luxembourg Presidency which I attended in Brussels on 26 Nove...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will make representations to the Indian government on ways in which the UK can assist India in moving to use cleaner sources of energy.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, on how many occasions a special adviser in her Department accompanied a Minister on an overseas trip since May 2015.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which energy companies have received public funding for renewable contracts and have contracted supply chain work to overseas companies.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will make an estimate of the number of UK jobs that would be created if contracts in the energy sector supply chain were awarded to UK firms.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate her Department has made of the financial value of the renewable energy sector supply chain.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment her Department has made of the effect on UK employment of (a) the early closure of renewables obligation and (b) the zero allocation into pot one of the contract for difference a
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the size of the (a) solar, (b) wind, (c) offshore wind and (d) renewable heat sector is; and by what proportion she plans for these sectors to grow in the next (i) five, (ii) 10 and (iii) 2
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many civil servants in her Department are in the redeployment pool.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 December 2015
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the Government's policy is on the appropriate percentage rate of return on investment for (a) schools and community groups investing in on-site solar power and (b) foreign state owned companies investing in new
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate her Department has made of the average per kwh cost of energy in each of the next five years; and if she will make a statement.