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- Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [Ist Day] (8 May 2013)
John Hayes: indicated assent.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Radiation: Emergency Services (15 April 2013)
John Hayes: Where an emergency plan prepared in accordance with the Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations 2001 (REPPIR) suggests an employee might receive an "emergency exposure" to radiation, each employer must provide those employees with appropriate radiation protection training. Hence, under REPPIR, employers must ensure such employees are provided with information and...
- Energy Infrastructure (Uk Supply Chain) (26 March 2013)
John Hayes: It was T. S. Eliot who said that we know too much and are convinced of too little, but that cannot be said of my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous), who is gaining a reputation as both a powerful and an elegant orator—if I may say so—in the interest of his constituents. Few Members of this House are more determined to advance the employment opportunities, the...
- Energy Infrastructure (Uk Supply Chain) (26 March 2013)
John Hayes: Some say I am the people’s voice. I would not want to claim that myself, but it is certainly true that the people’s interests are always close to my heart. I can tell my hon. Friend that we will respond to that call for evidence. Perhaps I should say more about it. I have asked my officials to look at pre-application consultation, benchmarking good practice, and ensuring that...
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Sequestration: Tees Valley (26 March 2013)
John Hayes: The criteria by which projects in the carbon capture and storage competition were assessed are set out in the Invitation to Participate in Discussions (ITPD) documentation. This is available on the Contracts Finder website at: http://www.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/ (search CCS Commercialisation) Following the announcement on the selection of preferred bidders in the CCS competition...
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy: North Sea (26 March 2013)
John Hayes: The National Policy Statement for Ports, which was designated in January 2012 and is available on the gov.uk website, strongly emphasizes the vital importance of the UK port sector in catering for a range of energy imports and exports including offshore wind and hydrocarbons. Ports in the north-east of England are well placed to respond to the demand in these sectors.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Radioactive Waste (26 March 2013)
John Hayes: The UK's higher activity radioactive waste is currently held in safe and secure storage facilities at various nuclear sites around the country. Government set out its approach to implementing a geological disposal facility (GDF) to dispose of the UK's higher activity radioactive waste in the 2008 White Paper “Managing Radioactive Waste Safely: A Framework for Implementing Geological...
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Wind Power: Thames Estuary (26 March 2013)
John Hayes: We recognise that it is important that the offshore wind and shipping industries are able to work alongside each other to maximise the benefits for both sectors and for the United Kingdom as a whole. All applications for renewable energy developments are considered within a formal process. Any consideration of the potential impacts of any wind farm in the Thames Estuary, including upon...
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy: Housing (25 March 2013)
John Hayes: The exact number and proportion of households who are off the gas grid is not held centrally. Estimates have been produced based on information held from two administrative sources; these are the Gemserv database on the location of electricity meters, and data from xoserve and independent gas transporters on the location of gas meters. Subtracting the number of gas meters from the number of...
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy: North Sea (25 March 2013)
John Hayes: The Department does not estimate future levels of production from the North sea area alone but out-turn data on, and projections of, oil and gas production are published at for the entire United Kingdom and UK continental shelf: https://www.gov.uk/oil-and-gas-uk-field-data Out-turn data on renewable energy generation are published in the Digest of UK Energy Statistics at:...
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Fracking (25 March 2013)
John Hayes: The Department classifies as a discovery any onshore gas well which flows gas at a rate of at least 0.2 million cubic feet per day. Although the presence of gas has been noted in a number of shales around the UK in the course of oil and gas drilling, the only discovery in the UK to meet this criterion is in Lancashire.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewables Obligation (25 March 2013)
John Hayes: The impact of the carbon price floor on wholesale prices was taken account of in the analysis to inform the renewables obligation banding review, as detailed in the final stage impact assessment published in July 2012(1). The Chancellor of the Exchequer, my right hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr Osborne), announced in the March Budget 2013 that the carbon price floor trajectory will...