Department of Energy and Climate Change

This article is part of the Climate project of Spinwatch.

Background

The Department brings together much of the Climate Change Group, previously housed within the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), with the Energy Group from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR).

People

Ministers since 2010

• The Secretary of State for the DECC is Ed Davey, who replaced Chris Huhne in February 2012. Under the previous government Ed Miliband held this position.
• Jonathan Marland, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State from May 2010
• Charles Hendry, Minister of State
• Greg Barker, Minister of State

Civil servants working on nuclear issues since 2010

• Mark Higson, Chief Executive Office of Nuclear Development
• Nicola Baggley, Head Nuclear Strategy
• Derek Lacey, Head Nuclear Policy and Head Radioactive Waste & Preparedness
• Adam Dawson, Head New Nuclear
• Mel Draper, Head Non-Proliferation

Nuclear Development Forum attendees from DECC in November 2011

• Chris Huhne | Charles Hendry | Mark Higson (Chief Executive Nuclear Unit) | Tim Stone | Hergen Haye |Stephen De Souza | Peter McDonald | Giles Scott | Jeremy Allen

• Observers: Nick Clements | Juliet Peters | Loveli Sanayat | Margaret McLaren | Sarah Merrit | Elvira Linzalone | Sam Ashfield-Murphy | Jon Bankhead | Si Dilks

Personnel under Labour until May 2010

• Minister of State - Mike O'Brien MP
• Minister of State - Lord Hunt of Kings Heath OBE (jointly with Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs); and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State - Joan Ruddock MP

Civil Servants and their roles under Energy & Climate Change International

• Mike Anderson--Director
• Pete Betts--Director International Climate Change Negotiations
• Chris Dodwell--Head Strategy
• Jan Thompson--Head Negotiations

• Graham White--Director (Acting) International Energy, Technology & Carbon Markets
• Tim Abraham--Head Europe
• John Neve--Head International. The Head International position is the head of international negotiations, and is responsible for negotiations in the United Nations, the European Union and Near Negotiations.
• Ashley Ibbett--Head International Oil

(See also link to Organogram link below)

Civil Servants under Energy Markets and Infrastructure

• Willy Rickett--Director General

• Chris Barton--Director (Acting) Renewable Energy & Innovation
• Duarte Figueira--Head Office for Renewable Energy Deployment
• Sarah Rhodes--Head Severn Tidal Power
• Stephen de Souza--Head Renewables Financial Incentives
• Jeanie Cruickshank--Head Energy Innovation
• Lorraine Hamid--Head Future Networks
• Andrew Perrins--Head Bioenergy

• Paul McIntyre--Director of Energy Security and Markets
• Elizabeth Cuthbertson Head of Energy Security Strategy
• Neil Feinson Head of Market Regulatory Framework
• Rocio Concha Acting Head of Energy Market Economics
• Michael Rutter

• Jim Campbell Director of Energy Development
• Simon Toole Head of Oil and Gas licensing, Exploration and Development
• Wendy Kennedy Head os Offshore Environment and Decommisioning
• Richard Mellish Head of Development Consents and Planning Reform
• Ian McKenzie Head of Coal Liabilities
• Elaine Drage Head of Carbon Capture and Readiness

• Martin Deutz Director of Cleaner Fossil Fuels
• Julian Hartley Head of CCS Competition
• Bronwen Northmore Head of CCS Policy

• Mark Higson CEO of Nuclear Development
• Nicola Baggley Head of Nuclear Strategy
• Derek Lacey Head of Nuclear Policy
• Head of New Nuclear
• Mel Draper Head of Non Proliferation
• Robert Jackson Acting Head of Radioactive Waste and Preparedness

(See also link to Organogram link below)

Civil Servants under National Climate Change and Consumer Support

• Simon Virley Acting Director General

• Martin Nesbit Acting Director Carbon Budgets and National Climate Change Delivery
• James Hughes Head of Carbon Budgets Policy
• Phil Duffy Haed of Carbon Budgets Delivery Mechanisms
• Niall MacKenzie Head of National Carbon Markets
• Trevor Hutchings Head of Low Carbon Economy

• Anne Sharp Acting Director of Energy Efficiency and Consumers
• Chris Leigh Energy efficiency and Households
• Scott Ghagan Head Fuel Bills initiative

• Daron Walker Acting Director of Fuel poverty Review

• Paddy Fenny Director of Communications

Affiliations

Subsidiaries

The DECC is also responsible for the Committee on Climate Change.

Resources

A document on the DECC website shows the structural organisation of the DECC

Contact details, Resources, Notes

Contact

Head Office

• Address: 3 Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HH
• Phone: General enquiries: 0300 060 4000
• Email: enquiries@decc.gsi.gov.uk
• Fax:
• Website: http://www.decc.gov.uk