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Young Offenders
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many reparation orders relating to those aged (a) 10 or 11, (b) 12 to 14 and (c) 15 to 17 years old have been (i) given and (ii) breached in each year since 1997. [302442]
Dawn Primarolo: The information is as follows:
(i) The following tables show the number of reparation orders that have been given to young people by courts.
The presented data are broken down by financial years and by the following age groups: (a) 10 and 11, (b) 12 to 14 and (c) 15 to 17-years-old.
(ii) The Youth Justice Board does not hold the data on number of breaches in relation to reparation orders.
Complete data prior to financial year 2000/01 is not held by the YJB. Reparation orders were only introduced in pilot areas from 1998 and nationally from 2000.
| Reparation Orders | ||||
| 10-11 | 12-14 | 5-17 | Total | |
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and may be subject to change over time.
Energy and Climate Change
Biofuels
Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change for what reasons he decided that grandfathering rights on the basis of those applied to offshore wind projects should not apply to regular biomass projects. [305181]
Mr. Kidney: 'Government Response to the Statutory Consultation on the Renewables Obligation Order 2009', published in December 2008, we set out our decision not to grandfather existing biomass and waste plants following evidence from the biomass industry:
"that grandfathering existing stations at 1 ROC/MWh while banding up new stations would be detrimental to a competitive market for the fuel stock ... [as] existing plants could not have reasonably anticipated the introduction of banding, and made any contingency for this. We ... therefore decided to allow existing plants to be banded up and receive the same level of support as new plants. ... As the principle of banding has now been established we believe that there is less reason to treat biomass stations as a special case."
However, we are currently carrying out work with the Renewables Advisory Board, the Renewable Energy Association and biomass stakeholders to assess whether moves in biomass fuel prices might warrant such action at the next banding review starting October 2010.
Nia Griffith: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what steps his Department is taking to monitor the level of use of each source of biomass fuel. [307626]
Joan Ruddock: The Government publish statistics on the annual use of biomass fuel in the Digest of UK Energy Statistics. Chapter 7 provides a breakdown by source. Further information relating to fuel use by power plants registered for the renewables obligation is kept by Ofgem on their searchable Renewable and CHP Register at:
https://www.renewablesandchp.ofgem.gov.uk/Public/ReportManager.aspx?ReportVisibility=1&;ReportCategory=0
In addition, the UK renewables obligation (RO) scheme introduced, on 1 April 2009, a reporting requirement to monitor the sustainability of biomass, including information such as country of origin of the fuel.
Buildings: Carbon Emissions
Gregory Barker: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the level of carbon emissions was from (a) housing and (b) other buildings in respect of (i) heating and cooling, (ii) hot water, (iii) lighting , (iv) appliances and (v) other sources in the latest year for which figures are available. [301943]
Joan Ruddock: For the UK household sector, total end-use emissions of carbon were just over 146.5 million tonnes of CO2 (MtCO2) in 2006, for which a breakdown of emissions per service is shown in Fig.1. Overall household sector carbon emissions in 2007 were just over 140.5 MtCO2,but the breakdown by service is not yet available for that year.
| Fig.1: Household carbon emissions by service in 2006 | |
| Service | MtCO 2 |
| (1) Of which lights contributed 8.4 MtCO2; appliances 33.4 MtCO2; and cooling 0.1 MtCO2 (indicative estimates). | |
For non-domestic buildings, the most recent estimates available are for 2008. Fig.2 shows the breakdown of emissions per service. These figures, totalling 88.9 MtCO2, include all energy use in public and commercial buildings and energy use for space heating and lighting in industrial buildings.
| Fig.2: Non-domestic carbon emissions by service in 2008 | |
| Service | MtCO 2 |
Carbon Emissions: Developing Countries
Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change with reference to his Department's press release of 26 June 2009, Make or break time for our climate, what research was used in the development of the policy to establish a $100 billion fund to assist developing countries reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. [307601]
Joan Ruddock [holding answer 15 December 2009]: We have drawn on analysis in various independent reports to calculate the scale of finance needed to tackle climate change in developing countries. The most recent, by Project Catalyst (a philanthropically funded project to develop analysis for the UNFCCC), put the total at €65-100 billion per year on average from 2010 to 2020 (€55-80 billion mitigation; €10-20 billion adaptation). The figure that the Prime Minister announced in a speech on 26 June 2009 of around $100 billion by 2020 is within this range. However, we also recognised that we must distinguish between research studies and the actual finance that countries might need for their low carbon and climate resilient growth and development. Therefore, we have proposed $100 billion a year by 2020 as a working figure for the world to focus on.
Carbon Emissions: Smoking
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate has been made of the effects of cigarette smoking on levels of carbon dioxide emissions. [306343]
Joan Ruddock: The Government have not made a detailed assessment of the effects of cigarette smoking on carbon dioxide emissions. As a plant product, the burning of tobacco is likely to result in zero net carbon dioxide emissions, although there will be other greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and distribution of cigarettes.
Climatic Research Unit
Sammy Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what information the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit has provided to his Department since its inception. [309170]
Joan Ruddock: DECC has no research or data-delivery contracts with the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU).
The Met Office, however, uses CRU's land temperature dataset, which is merged with sea surface temperatures to derive the global average temperature record. This is used in quarterly updates to DECC of global, regional and UK temperatures. A gridded version of this dataset is freely available from the Met Office Hadley Centre observations website.
Departmental Art Works
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much his Department spent on art works in the last 12 months. [306445]
Joan Ruddock: The Department has spent £5,000 on art works since its inception on 3 October 2008.
Departmental Buildings
Mr. Baron: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much his Department spent on works and refurbishment to offices allocated to Ministers in his Department's buildings in the last 12 months. [305684]
Joan Ruddock: DECC spent £667,526 refurbishing the 5(th) Floor of 3 Whitehall Place, which includes the ministerial offices. DECC is unable without incurring disproportionate cost to specifically identify the element related to offices allocated to Ministers.
Departmental Official Hospitality
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much his Department spent on (a) alcohol and (b) entertainment in the last 12 months. [305539]
Joan Ruddock: Accordingly to the Department's financial records the total amount spent on entertainment in the financial year 2008-09 was £184,000. It is not possible to separate out the cost for alcohol.
Departmental Pay
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much was claimed in reimbursable expenses by press officers in his Department in each of the last three financial years. [303771]
Joan Ruddock: The Department of Energy and Climate Change was formed on 3 October 2008.
Claims submitted by press officers for reimbursable expenses in the period October 2008 to March 2009 totalled £242.
Departmental Publicity
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much his Department has spent on (a) Ministerial photoshoots and (b) production of videos in which Ministers appear since its inception. [305515]
Joan Ruddock: The Department has spent (a) £2,695 on photoshoots and (b) £34,720 on production of videos for Ministers since its inception on 3 October 2008.
Departmental Scientists
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many (a) scientific advisers and (b) civil servants in scientific posts there are in his Department. [301926]
Joan Ruddock: The Department has a Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor David Mackay. In addition, there are three independent committees that advise the Department on scientific and other matters. These are: the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (15 members); the Advisory Committee on Carbon Abatement Technologies (15 members); the Committee on Climate Change (eight members). The Department also receives advice from a number of other bodies. These include: Energy Technology Institute; Carbon Trust; and UK Energy Research Centre.
Currently there are 66 science and engineering posts in the Department.
Departmental Telephone Services
Mark Lazarowicz: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many telephone lines with the prefix (a) 0870, (b) 0845 and (c) 0800 his Department (i) operates and (ii) sponsors; how many calls were received to each number in the last 12 months; and whether alternative numbers charged at the BT local rate are available in each case. [305217]
Joan Ruddock: The Department does not hold this information centrally and it would take a disproportionate amount of time and cost to gather.
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