VoteClimate: Carbon Emissions: Boilers - 5th March 2010

Carbon Emissions: Boilers - 5th March 2010

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Carbon Emissions: Boilers.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2010-03-05/debates/10030529000115/CarbonEmissionsBoilers

Charles Hendry

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change with reference to paragraph 7.36, page 127, of the pre-Budget report, Cm 7747, what estimate he has made of the increase in greenhouse gas emissions likely to result from the manufacture of additional boilers as a result of the greener boiler incentive. ( 320370 )

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Joan Ruddock

Based on manufacturers' data on the lifecycle costs of a boiler, we estimate the greenhouse gas emissions from a boiler's manufacture are less than 1 per cent. of its lifetime emissions, with 99 per cent. associated with the fuel consumed during its operation.

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Charles Hendry

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change with reference to paragraph 7.36, page 127, of the pre-Budget report, Cm 7747, what estimate he has made of the annual reduction in UK greenhouse gas emissions likely to result from the greener boiler incentive. ( 320371 )

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Charles Hendry

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change with reference to paragraph 7.36, page 127, of the pre-Budget report, Cm 7747, what estimate he has made of the effect on greenhouse gas emissions of the greener boiler incentive. ( 320372 )

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