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Energy and Climate Change

Carbon Emissions

Derek Wyatt: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what his Department's definition is of carbon neutrality. [318511]

Joan Ruddock: The Government's definition of carbon neutrality was published in October 2009 and is available on the DECC website:

http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/what_we_do/lc_uk/neutrality/neutrality.aspx

The definition is

"Carbon neutral means that-through a transparent process of calculating emissions, reducing those emissions and offsetting residual emissions-net carbon emissions equal zero."

Fuel Poverty: South West

Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent estimate he has made of the number of households in fuel poverty in each constituency in Devon and Cornwall. [318664]

Mr. Kidney: The most recently available sub-regional split of fuel poverty relates to 2006. The following table shows the number of households in fuel poverty in each constituency in Devon and Cornwall:

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	Parliamentary constituency	Number of fuel poor households
Cornwall	Falmouth and Camborne	6,700
	North Cornwall	10,300
	St. Ives	8,500
	South-East Cornwall	6,500
	Truro and St. Austell	7,400
Devon	East Devon	6,000
	Exeter	4,800
	North Devon	7,800
	Plymouth, Devonport	3,700
	Plymouth, Sutton	7,100
	South-West Devon	3,100
	Teignbridge	6,300
	Tiverton and Honiton	6,500
	Torbay	7,600
	Torridge and West Devon	10,600
	Totnes	6,900

Government Departments: Carbon Emissions

Derek Wyatt: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether there are plans to redefine carbon neutrality targets in respect of Government departments; and if he will make a statement. [318510]

Joan Ruddock: The Sustainable Operations on the Government Estate (SOGE) framework, including the target for central Government to be carbon neutral by 2012, is under review. An announcement on the new framework will be made shortly.

Natural Gas: Storage

John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much gas was taken from (a) medium, (b) long and (c) short range storage on each day in February 2010 for which figures are available; and what estimate he has made of the volume of gas exported to continental Europe on each of those days. [318581]

Mr. Kidney: The table shows the flows of gas out of storage and to and from Europe. This covers the period for which data from national grid (the system operator) were available at the time of searching.

During the period the UK was a net importer of gas from Europe on each day, although there was some cross-trading of gas (importing from the Netherlands while exporting to Belgium) on some days.

The relationship between flows patterns can be complex and reflects underlying supply and demand conditions (and thereby prices) at different times and different markets. Contractual and other factors may also play a role. Attempting to map and compare particular supplies of gas into the market to particular flows out of the market would be misleading; what is important is the aggregate supply and demand position.

During the period the UK was well supplied with gas.

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	Withdrawals from long range storage in mcm( 1)	Withdrawals from medium range storage in mcm( 2)	Withdrawals from short range storage in mcm( 3)	Exports to continental Europe through the UK in mcm( 4)	Imports into the UK through UK in mcm( 5)	Imports into the UK through BBL in mcm
1 February 2010	44.0	14.2	0.1	13.1	0.0	32.5
2 February 2010	44.2	10.1	0.1	0.0	1.0	30.9
3 February 2010	38.4	7.4	0.1	9.9	0.0	34.0
4 February 2010	30.9	4.6	0.1	0.0	5.4	31.8
5 February 2010	19.5	0.2	0.0	6.5	0.0	32.2
6 February 2010	14.3	1.0	0.0	9.1	0.0	32.8
7 February 2010	17.7	2.0	0.1	7.0	0.0	32.7
8 February 2010	43.4	18.5	0.1	5.5	0.0	32.3
9 February 2010	43.7	23.4	0.2	0.0	3.6	27.7
10 February 2010	43.7	28.7	0.1	0.0	0.6	27.7
11 February 2010	43.8	22.2	0.1	0.0	8.5	27.7
12 February 2010	43.8	13.0	0.0	0.0	6.9	27.4
13 February 2010	37.5	26.9	0.0	0.0	8.3	27.7
14 February 2010	44.5	14.4	0.0	0.0	11.8	27.7
15 February 2010	45.2	11.7	0.1	0.0	11.1	27.6
16 February 2010	42.7	25.3	0.1	0.0	10.4	27.6
17 February 2010	43.4	13.6	0.1	0.0	6.3	31.3
18 February 2010	43.0	15.8	0.1	1.6	0.0	33.1
19 February 2010	43.0	18.6	0.0	11.6	0.0	33.1
20 February 2010	33.2	1.4	0.0	9.0	0.0	32.8
21 February 2010	34.2	2.5	0.1	12.4	0.0	38.4
(1) Long range storage is the Rough facility. (2) Aggregated end of day flows from: Aldbrough, Hatfield Moor, Hole House Farm, Hornsea and Humbly Grove. (3) Aggregated end of day flows from: Avonmouth, Glenmavis and Partington. (4) Exports through the Interconnector; value of 0 assigned to days when the Interconnector was in import mode. (5) Imports through the Interconnector; value of 0 assigned to days when the Interconnector was in export mode.

Warm Front Scheme

John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether tenants with communal heating systems are eligible for participation in the Warm Front programme. [318275]

Mr. Kidney: The provision of measures under the Warm Front scheme to a household will be subject to assessment by the scheme manager in accordance with the regulations which govern the scheme. The scheme includes the provision of a range of heating measures including the provision of a central heating system connected to the local community-heating grid, with no more than six radiators, for qualifying households.

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