Department of Energy and Climate Change
The Prime Minister created the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) on 3rd October 2008. The Department brings together the government’s work on three long-term challenges that face our country: Ensuring we have energy that is affordable, secure and sustainable; bringing about the transition to a low-carbon Britain; and achieving an international agreement on climate change at Copenhagen in December 2009.
Contact information
- Address: 3-8 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2HH
- Tel: 0300 060 4000
- Website: www.decc.gov.uk
- Generic Email format: firstname.surname@decc.gsi.gov.uk
Parliamentary Branch
Correspondence Section
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Ministers
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change: The Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP
Ed Miliband
Leads on:
- Overall strategy
- Leading for the UK in key international and EU negotiations and overseas engagements.
Private Office to The Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP
Minister of State and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords: The Rt Hon Lord Hunt of Kings Heath OBE
Lord Hunt
Ensuring secure, low carbon and affordable energy supply
Leads on:
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Energy security, long-term energy projections and strategy.
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Markets, prices and regulatory framework
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Low carbon energy supply:
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Renewable energy (including Severn tidal power)
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Renewable heat
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Nuclear strategy and delivery
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Carbon Capture & Storage/cleaner fossil fuels
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Development of the gas and electricity grid, “smart grids” and the smart meter programme
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Nuclear safety, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, radioactive waste and international non-proliferation
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Development consents and planning
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Licensing and exploration
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Offshore environment and decommissioning
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Low Carbon Industrial Strategy
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Supports Secretary of State on international energy
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Supports Secretary of State in oversight of department’s value for money strategy and delivery relationships.
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Representing DECC in the House of Lords
Private Office to the Rt Hon Lord Hunt of Kings Heath OBE
Minister of State: Joan Ruddock MP
Joan Ruddock
Encouraging behaviour change across UK society and ambitious global agreement to deliver carbon reduction in a fair and effective way.
Leads on:
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Domestic energy savings strategy and delivery, including:
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Carbon Emissions Reduction Target
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Community Energy Savings programme
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Prime Minister’s home insulation targets
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Work of the Energy Savings Trust
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Encouraging the public to change their behaviour, including Act on CO2 programme
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EU Emissions trading and global carbon markets
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Carbon Budgets
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Carbon Reduction Commitment, Climate Change Levy and Climate Change Agreements
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Greening DECC
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Sponsorship of Energy Saving Trust, Carbon Trust
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Links between mitigation and adaptation policy, and links to the sustainable production agenda. (Working with DEFRA.)
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Supporting the Secretary of State on international negotiations on climate change and in promoting national debate in the run up to Copenhagen.
Private Office to Joan Ruddock MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State: David Kidney MP
David Kidney
Leads on:
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Fuel Poverty Strategy, including delivery and oversight of the Warm Front programme
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Promoting the interests of energy consumers
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Coal liabilities including coal health payments
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Emergency preparedness in the power sector
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Energy innovation and emerging technologies
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Skills in the energy and low carbon sector
Private Office to David Kidney MP
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Private Offices
Private Office to Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP
Private Office to the Rt Hon Lord Hunt of Kings Heath OBE
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Telephone: 0300 068 5982
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Fax: 0300 068 5005
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Private Office to Joan Ruddock MP
Private Office to David Kidney MP
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