The Department of Energy
The Department of Energy
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DOI：
10.1007/978-1-349-04829-8_3
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发表时间：
1981
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通讯作者：
L. Pearson
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作者：
L. Pearson
能源部负责制定与所有形式的能源有关的国家政策，包括节约能源和开发新能源。它还负责能源政策的国际方面。该部的职责包括政府与国有能源工业（煤炭、天然气和电力）以及原子能管理局和英国国家石油公司的关系。（公务员部门，1977,col. 265）按照公务员标准，能源部是一个很小的部门，只有大约1300名员工（包括文员），但除了上述职责外，它的职责还包括资本成本非常高的领域，如核能和石油工业。该部门的部长领导是能源国务大臣托尼·本恩，他由能源国务大臣和两名议会副国务大臣协助。在公务员方面，国务院由常务副国务卿杰克·兰普顿（jack Rampton）领导。虽然这样的能源部在1974年1月才成立，但它在政府中以各种其他名称存在了很长时间。随着各种能源的重要性的增加或减少，责任领域也有所不同。
The Department of Energy is responsible for the development of national policies in relation to all forms of energy, including energy conservation and the development of new sources of energy. It is also responsible for international aspects of energy policy. The Department's responsibilities include the Government's relationships with the nationalised energy industries (coal, gas and electricity) as well as the Atomic Energy Authority, and the British National Oil Corporation.(Civil Service Department, 1977, col. 265)The Department of Energy is a small department by Civil Service standards with only about 1300 staff (including clerical staff), but its responsibilities, in addition to those given above, include areas with very high capital costs such as the nuclear power and oil industries. The ministerial head of the department is the Secretary of State for Energy, Tony Benn, and he is assisted by the Minister of State for Energy and two Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State. On the Civil Service side, the department is headed by SirJack Rampton, the Permanent Under-Secretary of State. Although the Department of Energy as such only came into existence in January 1974, it has had a long history in government under a variety of other names. Areas of responsibility varied, too, as the importance of various energy sources grew or diminished.