| Heading: |
Hydroelectric Power: Licensing |
| Question ID: |
1803742 |
| UIN: |
52958 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-16 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5256 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Jonathan Davies
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| Asking Member handle: |
Jonathan4MD
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@Jonathan4MD
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made a comparative assessment of the value-for-money of levels of abstraction license fees for hydropower schemes in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) other |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-22 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4645 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Emma Hardy
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Emma Hardy
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
Determining abstraction licences for hydropower projects is a complex activity due to the risks to the environment and water users. Hydropower application charges are based on a scheme’s output power and its risk rating. Annual subsistence charges cover c... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |