To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what circumstances would constitute a political shutdown of the proposed Hinkley Point C power station by the EU or international competent authority which would trigger a payment to the operato...
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will specify the comparable operators whose costs would be taken into account prior to the Opex reopeners for the contract for difference relating to Hinkley Point C power station being t...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will establish an examination of objections to her departmental minute of 21 October 2015 including the entering into contracts regarding the Hinkley Point C power station that could give...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether she plans to bring forward legislative proposals that hydraulic fracturing cannot be conducted from wells that are drilled at the surface of sensitive areas.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, under what timetable she will announce the mechanism for ensuring that hydraulic fracturing cannot be conducted from wells that are drilled at the surface of sensitive areas.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will publish her Department's (a) estimate of projected levy expenditure under the Levy Control Framework to 2020 before the changes announced in July 2015, (b) estimate of projected levy...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment she has made of the effect of the freezing of the carbon price floor on the Government's projected levy expenditure under the Levy Control Framework to 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the (a) fuel source and (b) capacity is of each of the new energy plants that obtained long term capacity contracts in the last capacity auction.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what her preferred means of levy support is for the operation of Carbon Capture and Storage plants.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what her policy is on the introduction of net metering for (a) domestic and (b) commercial electricity generating installations.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to report on the performance of each Department against the five per cent target for the purchase of remanufactured office furniture in the Government Buying Standard.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is his policy that there will be no change in the rate of VAT on the home installation of energy saving products for the duration of this Parliament.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is his policy to define (a) controls for central heating and hot water systems, (b) draught insulation, (c) solar panels, (d) wind turbines, (e) ground source heat pumps, (f) air source heat pumps, (g) mic...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes of violence were recorded against serving police officers through health and safety self-reporting by police officers in (a) 2012, (b) 2013 and (c) 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes of violence against serving police officers were (a) entered by each constabulary into the national crime statistics and (b) recorded through health and safety self-reporting by police...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of the (a) number of new nuclear plants planned by 2028, (b) projected capacity of each such plant, (c) the projected timetable for commissioning each such plant and t...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions she Department has had with investors who have sunk costs in the onshore wind pipeline under the Renewables Obligation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what her policy is on the continuation of operation of the Renewables Obligation Closure Order 2014, no 2388, before the introduction of primary legislation to close the Renewables Obligation to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate her Department has made of the amount invested in onshore wind projects planned to begin before 31 March 2017 which have not yet received Renewables Obligation Certificates.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what limits he is setting on capacity market payments made through the Levy Control Framework.