Oral evidence Taken before the Environmental
Audit Committee
on Wednesday 19 October 2005
Members present:
| Mr Peter Ainsworth, in the Chair
| Mr Nick Hurd |
| Ms Celia Barlow | Mark Pritchard
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| Mr Martin Caton | Emily Thornberry
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| Colin Challen | Dr Desmond Turner
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| Mr David Chaytor | Mrs Theresa Villiers
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| Mr Tobias Ellwood | Joan Walley
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| Lynne Featherstone | |
CONTENTS
Memorandum submitted by WWF-UK
Table 1: Summary of Current Economic Potential for Energy
Saving
Table 2: Cost Comparisons of Nuclear Power and Renewable
Energy
Witnesses: Dr Richard Dixon, Head of WWF-Scotland,
and Mr David Norman, Head of WWF-UK Public Affairs, examined.
Question Numbers
1-19
20-25
Supplementary memorandum submitted by WWF-UK
Figure 1:Changes in gross energy consumption and energy
intensity from 1975 to 2003
Table 1: Gross Energy Consumption in Denmark
Memorandum submitted by the Lower Carbon Futures Research
Group, Environmental Change Institute University of Oxford
Table 1: Low and Zero-Carbon Technologies in the 40 per
cent House Scenario
Figure 1: Electricity Generated from Different Micro-Generation
Technologies in the 40 per cent House Scenario, Residential Sector,
UK 2050
Figure 2: Consumers stated Preference for Electricity
Associated with certain Environmental Impacts, UK 2003
Memorandum submitted by the Centre for Management Under
Regulation, Warwick Business School
Witnesses: Dr Brenda Boardman MBE, Programme Leader,
and Dr Mark Hinnells, Senior Researcher, Lower Carbon Futures;
Dr Catherine Mitchell, Principal Research Fellow, Warwick
Business School, examined.
26-39
40-50
Supplementary memorandum submitted by Catherine Mitchell,
Centre for Management Under Regulation, Warwick Business School,
further to oral evidence given on 19 October 2005
Table 1: Comparison of Assumptions in recent Forecasts
for new Nuclear Power Plants
Memorandum submitted by Tom Burke
Witness: Mr Tom Burke CBE, examined.
51-59
60-79
80-99
100-103
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