I think they call it BERR, in the same way as the Department for 'communities' and Local government is CLG - they seem to be dropping Departments.
Hover BERR, in context, is DTI is the successor to the Department of Energy and therefore the official sponsor of the energy industries, which in context, usually means boosting nuclear power.
If we still had a fast Breeder Reactor going, then I would interpret the 'interpretation' as suggesting that nuclear might be defined as 'renewable' on the grounds that fuel for pressurised water reactors was 'bred' in a fast breeder, and waste was reprocessed in a continuous cycle needing little new input.
Possibly energy from incinerating domestic waste might be 'renewable', and/or burning methane from landfill.
Meanwhile, back in my home territory of 'statistical interpretation' of the Jobseeker's allowance claimant count aka n changes in definition, A DWP research report (no 445) has now confirmed the anecdotal evidence we had that the JSA 'regime' was 'refocused and relaunched' at the end of April 2006. Since then, the claimant count has gone down quite dramatically, having been going up towards the 1 million mark. The pattern of JSA movements by duration is very similar to that of the introduction of JSA in 1995, and is associated with a significant growth of disallowances from benefit for various breaches of the eligibility conditions. It will be interesting to see whether there are increases in other benefits or other indicators e.g. crime following this tightening of practice, which has not been the subject of any announcement or debate.
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Subject: "Statisical interpretation"
Hi Folks,
Happy Monday morning!
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/aug/13/renewableenergy.energy
reports on a leaked DBERR (heard of them?) memo to ministers which advises that
"under current policies Britain would miss the EU's 2020 target
of 20% energy from renewables by a long way."
"Under current policies renewables would account for only 5% of
Britain's energy mix by 2020, the document says."
The memo is quoted as asking ministers:
"what options there are for statistical interpretations
of the target that would make it easier to achieve"
"Statistical interpretations"? Could this possibly mean that there is uncertainty about whet the target is?
If the UK could widen the confidence interval for the 20% target until it includes the achievable 5%, would the UK be deemed to have attained the target, on the grouds that there is no significant evidence that it didn't?
Oh what scope this opens up!
Best wishes,
Ted.
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