To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether his Department has drawn up a shortlist of potential special advisers on the development of national policy statements on (a) wind farms and (b) nuclear power plants; what remuneration will be provided to such advisers; and what criteria will be used to select them. (279469)

We have not drawn up a shortlist of potential special advisers on the development of national policy statements on (a) wind farms and (b) nuclear power plants and currently have no plans to do so.