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TRADE AND INDUSTRY
"Oil Crises and Climate Challenges"
Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will publish her response to the International Energy Agency's publication, "Oil Crises and Climate Challenges". [168636]
Mr. Timms: The IEA carries out detailed analytical work on a wide range of energy policy issues and produces a considerable number of publications each year. As other IEA members, the UK is able to contribute to the nature and content of individual IEA publications when they are still in the draft stage. The Department, therefore, does not generally view it as necessary to make official responses to IEA publications. It has not made an official response to this publication and does not intend to do so.
Accountancy Services
Mr. Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the (a) nature and (b) value was of all contracts, consultancies or other services placed with the accountancy firms (i) Deloitte & Touche, (ii) Ernst & Young, (iii) KPMG and (iv) PricewaterhouseCoopers since 2000–01 by the Department and its agencies. [166086]
Jacqui Smith: Central records indicate the following values for the three financial years since 2000–01:
| Supplier/financial year | Spend (£) |
|---|---|
| Deloitte & Touche | |
| 2001–02 | 6,504,084 |
| 2002–03 | 10,784,757 |
| 2003–04 | 12,105,274 |
| Ernst & Young | |
| 2001–02 | 1,289,628 |
| 2002–03 | 1,625,512 |
| 2003–04 | 2,615,137 |
| KPMG | |
| 2001–02 | 94,347 |
| 2002–03 | 236,976 |
| 2003–04 | 2,121,207 |
| PricewaterhouseCooper | |
| 2001–02 | 3,507,357 |
| 2002–03 | 9,297,179 |
| 2003–04 | 5,776,612 |
The nature of these contracts included research, IT services and consultancy, market research, financial consultancy, legal services and consultancy, training and project management. Details of individual contracts can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
I have asked the Department's Executive Agencies to reply direct to the hon. Member. Small Business Service's figures are included in the above table.
Letter from Ron Marchant to Mr. Jim Cousins, dated 29 April 2004:
I am replying to this parliamentary question, tabled on 1 April 2004, concerning the nature and value of all contracts, consultancies or other services placed with the accountancy firms (i) Deloitte & Touche, (ii) Ernst & Young, (iii) KPMG and (iv) PricewaterhouseCoopers since 2000–01.
The Patent Office has not let contracts, consultancies or other services with the aforementioned accountancy firms during the above period.
Letter from Desmond Flynn to Mr. Jim Cousins, dated 29 April 2004:
The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has asked me to reply to you directly on behalf of The Insolvency Service in respect of your question (2003/2390) asking what the (a) nature and (b) value was all contracts, consultancies and other services placed with the accountancy firms (i) Deloitte & Touche, (ii) Ernst & Young, (iii) KPMG and (IV) PricewaterhouseCoopers since 2000–01 by the Department and agencies.
I can confirm that The Insolvency Service has had no contracts, consultancies or other services with any of the above-named firms since 2000–01.
Letter from Dr. J. W. Llewellyn to Mr. Jim Cousins, dated 29 April 2004:
The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has asked me to reply on behalf of the National Weights and Measures Laboratory (NWML) to your question about the nature and value of all contracts, consultancies and other services placed with Deloitte and Touche, Ernst and Young, KPMG and PriceWaterhouseCoopers since 2000–2001.
Since 2000–01 NWML has not placed any work with the accountancy firms listed.
Letter from Claire Clancy to Mr. Jim Cousins, dated 29 April 2004:
I am responding to your recent Parliamentary Question to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on behalf of Companies House, which is an Executive Agency of the DTL.
Since 2000/01 we have had one contract with Ernst and Young for an HR review in 2003 with a total value of £27,095.94.
We have not had any contracts with Deloitte and Touche, KPMG or PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Letter from Roger Heathcote to Mr. Jim Cousins, dated 29 April 2004:
You asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the (a) nature and (b) value was of all contracts, consultancies or other services placed with the accountancy firms (i) Deloitte & Touche, (ii) Ernst & Young, (iii) KPMG and (iv) PricewaterhouseCoopers since 2000–01 by the Department and its agencies. I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Employment Tribunals Service.
The Employment Tribunals Service used Deloitte and Touche in 2001 to undertake a Pay and Grading Review. The cost of the review was £50,000. The project was completed in May 2001.
Electricity Generation
Mr. Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what percentage of electricity has been generated from renewable sources in each of the last seven years for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement. [168056]
Mr. Timms: The percentages of electricity derived from renewable sources in the each of the seven years from 1997 to 2003 are as follows:
Overall | Sources eligible for Renewable Obligation | |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 2.12 | 0.78 |
| 1998 | 2.55 | 0.95 |
| 1999 | 2.76 | 1.18 |
| 2000 | 2.75 | 1.32 |
| 2001 | 2.62 | 1.52 |
| 2002 | 2.96 | 1.74 |
| 2003 (Provisional) | 2.9 | 2.0 |
Source:
Digest of UK Energy Statistics 2003 and Digests for earlier years.
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This overall renewables percentage includes both biodegradable and non-biodegradable wastes and large scale hydro. The amount of electricity produced using hydro sources varies from year to year depending on the rainfall. Low precipitation during the winters of 2000–01 and 2002–03 resulted in low hydro output during 2001 and 2003 hence the fall in generation from renewables in those years.
Source eligible for the Renewables Obligation are biofuels (including the co-firing of biomass with fossil fuel), onshore and offshore wind, all new hydro, refurbished hydro up to 20 MW (commissioned before 1990), solar photovoltaics and wave and tidal technologies. As more and more onshore and offshore wind projects are commissioned, we can expect to see substantial growth in the amount of renewables electricity output over the coming years.
Mr. Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what estimates she has made of the expected generation costs per MWh for (a) wind and (b) nuclear technologies in (i) 2010 and (ii) 2020. [169776]
Mr. Timms: The Department has published estimates of the cost of electricity generation from a variety of technologies. These are contained in a report published in February 2002 available at: www.dti.gov.uk/energy/greenhousegas/index.shtml.
The Performance and Innovation Unit at the Cabinet Office also published similar estimates in its 2001 Energy Review. These are available at: www.number-10.gov.uk/su/energy/l.html.
Work undertaken for the Renewables Innovation Review covering wind generation costs is also available at: www.dti.gov.uk/energy/renewables/policy/oxeraresults.pdf.
EU Emissions Trading Scheme
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what range of prices for carbon is being included in her Department's forward energy projections from 2005 onwards, with reference to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. [167765]
Mr. Timms: We have considered a range for the price of a carbon emission allowance from €5 per tonne to €25 per tonne of carbon dioxide (tCO 2 ) for our forward energy projections and other work related to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We expect the carbon price to be towards the lower end of the range. EU ETS carbon allowances are currently trading at about €7 per tonne of CO 2 , albeit on low sales volumes.
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