To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will give for each year from 1978 the energy consumption, broken down by fuel, of the buildings occupied by his Department, expressing the figures in (a) cash terms, (b) 1978–79 money terms and (c) units of consumption for electricity in kilowatt hours, gas in therms, liquid fuel in litres and solid fuel in tonnes.
[holding answer 25 June 1990]: The information requested for the years prior to 1983–84 is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. From 1983–84 onwards the energy consumption and costs for the Northern Ireland Government Office estate, broken down by fuel, are as follows:
Electricity | Oil | Gas | |
1983–84 | |||
Consumption | 25·5m KWh | 4·25m L | 72K th |
Cash prices | £1,140,000 | £680,000 | £58,000 |
1978–79 prices | £619,691 | £286,181 | £26,342 |
1984–85 | |||
Consumption | 27·2m KWh | 4·65m L | 79K th |
Electricity
| Oil
| Gas
| |
Cash prices | £1,065,000 | £684,000 | £58,000 |
1978–79 prices | £567,279 | £267,630 | £25,784 |
1985–86
| |||
Consumption | 29·2m KWh | 4·8m L | 53K th |
Cash prices | £1,423,000 | £861,000 | £44,000 |
1978–79 prices | £728,940 | £339,070 | £18,996 |
1986–87
| |||
Consumption | 34·1m KWh | 5·19 L | 27K th |
Cash prices | £1,496,000 | £532,000 | £27,000 |
1978–79 prices | £766,335 | £261,884 | £11,541 |
1987–88
| |||
Consumption | 33·3m KWh | 5·14m L | 37K th |
Cash prices | £1,540,000 | £437,000 | £26,000 |
1978–79 prices | £788,874 | £231,000 | £11,637 |
1988–89
| |||
Consumption | 33·3m KWh | 5·11m L | — |
Cash prices | £1,594,000 | £359,000 | — |
1978–79 prices | £751,875 | £185,413 | — |
1989–90
| |||
Consumption | 32·75m KWh | 4·98m L | — |
Cash prices | £1,601,000 | £449,000 | — |
1978–79 prices | £708,835 | £202,660 | — |
Note: Cash prices have been converted to 1978–79 prices by reference to the rates of the elements of the retail prices index applicable to the respective fuels.