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The level of financial support that will be provided to carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration projects on commercial-scale coal fired power stations under the CCS Incentive has yet to be set.
There are no tariffs for output from nuclear installations, or oil or coal combustion without CCS.
Energy Supply
Lindsay Roy: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what steps his Department is taking to encourage a diversity of energy supply. [323351]
Mr. Kidney [holding answer 22 March 2010]: I refer you to the answer I gave to your question No. 314481 on 5 February 2010, Official Report, column 619W.
Energy: Meters
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what service standards he plans to include in codes of conduct for the implementation of smart meters. [322485]
Mr. Kidney: The Smart Metering Implementation Programme is considering a wide range of issues relating to smart meter roll out including whether service standards and/or codes of conduct should be put place before the formal roll out begins.
Government Car and Despatch Agency
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much his Department has paid to the Government Car and Despatch Agency since its inception; how much it has spent on such payments in 2009-10; and what proportion of such payments was made in respect of the Government Car Service. [316786]
Joan Ruddock: The Department of Energy and Climate Change has paid to the Government Car and Despatch Agency £432,566.50 since its inception on 3 October 2008. The latest available figures at the end of January 2010 show a total of £338,809.31 has been paid in the financial year 2009-10. All the payments were in respect of the Government Car Service.
Costs to Departments of ministerial cars are reported annually to Parliament by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport through written ministerial statement and are available in the Library of the House.
Warm Front Scheme
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many Warm Front applications referred to Eaga Ltd. remained (a) outstanding, (b) unresolved and (c) incomplete for more than (i) 21 days, (ii) three months and (iii) six months in each of the last two years. [319928]
Mr. Kidney
[holding answer 2 March 2010]: The Warm Front scheme does not record information in the way requested on the number of applications that remain (a) outstanding, (b) unresolved and (c) incomplete for
more than (i) 21 days, (ii) three months and (iii) six months. It is not possible to provide a direct answer to the question. However, information is available regarding the total number of applications currently outstanding and the applications progressed within agreed time scales-21 working days for surveys, three months for insulation measures and six months for heating measures. This information is provided as follows:
The total number of applicants that applied to the scheme in 2009-10 (as at end of February 2010) was 269,268 and 12.4 per cent. were awaiting an assessment.
| Surveys | ||
| 2008-09 | 2009-10 | |
| Insulation | ||
| 2008-09 | 2009-10 | |
| Heating | ||
| 2008-09 | 2009-10 | |
Wind Power
Mr. Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what guidance his Department has issued to local authorities and planning bodies on technical issues arising from planning proposals for wind turbines. [322032]
Mr. Kidney [holding answer 12 March 2010]: The Department has issued the following guidance and reports to inform local authorities and planning bodies on technical issues arising from planning proposals for wind turbines:
The Assessment and Rating of Noise from Wind Farms (ETSU R-97), (1996)
Cumulative effects of wind turbines (2000)
Wind Energy and Aviation Interests: Interim Guidelines (2002)
Wind Turbines and Aviation Interests-European Experience and Practice (2002)
Wind Farms Impact on Radar Aviation Interests (2003)
Research into Aerodynamic Modulation of Wind Turbine Noise (2007)
Onshore Wind Energy Planning Conditions Guidance Note (2007).
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