Results 1-20 of 8,499 for speaker:Gregory Barker
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Anaerobic Digestion (21 May 2013)
Gregory Barker: We do not hold information on which AD plants are crop only as part of the feed-in tariffs scheme which has been operational since April 2010. AD plants may use crops as part of a crop/waste mix although the split between the amounts of crops/waste used may vary from week to week.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Climate Change (21 May 2013)
Gregory Barker: The Met Office is one of Government's key advisory institutions on climate science, which undertakes climate research and modelling and provides advice on technical questions related to climate, to the Department. Global temperatures, along with other aspects of the climate system, are primarily assessed using physically-based mathematical models, rather than statistical models.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Clothing (21 May 2013)
Gregory Barker: There have been no claims by officials of (a) the Department of Energy and Climate Change or (b) its non-departmental public bodies for evening dress allowance.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy (21 May 2013)
Gregory Barker: The Department has not had any recent discussions with energy providers on industry-supported helplines and Welsh language provision.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy: Disconnections (21 May 2013)
Gregory Barker: Ofgem monitors and publishes information about disconnections of domestic electricity supplies (in its Domestic Supplies' Quarterly Debt and Disconnection reports: http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/Sustainability/SocAction/Monitoring/ SoObMonitor/Pages/SocObMonitor.aspx The following tables show the number of disconnections of domestic electricity and gas supplies due to debt during 12 month period of...
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Green Deal Scheme: North East (21 May 2013)
Gregory Barker: The latest Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation monthly statistics, as released on 14 May 2013, reported that there were 18,816 Green Deal Assessments lodged in Great Britain up to the end of April 2013: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/green-deal-and-en ergy-company-obligation-eco-monthly-statistics-may-2013 DECC will publish, on 27 June 2013, our first quarterly Official...
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Hydrofluorocarbons (21 May 2013)
Gregory Barker: The UK is fully supportive of action through the Montreal protocol to phase-down HFCs. DEFRA is the lead Department for the implementation of the Montreal protocol. The UK is also working through the Department to secure a call from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on the Montreal protocol to phase-down the production and consumption of HFCs. DEFRA and DECC...
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Ict (21 May 2013)
Gregory Barker: The following items were lost or stolen during: 2010-11 Number Computers (including laptops) 5 Mobile phones 3 BlackBerry 12 Other IT equipment 0 2011-12 Number Computers (including laptops) 10 Mobile phones 1 BlackBerry 17 Other IT equipment 0 2012-13 Number Computers (including laptops) 5 Mobile phones 0 ...
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Procurement (21 May 2013)
Gregory Barker: The Department of Energy and Climate Change procurement policies aim to ensure transparency, fairness, non-discrimination and value for money in accordance with Cabinet Office policy and legal requirements. There is no specific requirement for policy teams to consider and include the improvement and retention of local skills within the scope of procurements, although they may become part of...
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Travel (21 May 2013)
Gregory Barker: Neither the Department of Energy and Climate Change nor its non-departmental public bodies keeps a central record of the number of individual staff claiming travel and subsistence. We are able to provide the number and value of claims recorded from 2008-13, as shown in the following table for (a) core-DECC and (b) DECC's NDPBs (excluding the Committee on Climate Change). Core DECC...