To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what measures have been put in place in each Government Department to promote energy efficiency in each year since 1997. [125311]
The energy efficiency targets embodied in the Climate Change Programme of November 2000 were included in the Northern Ireland Executive's Programme for Government and were also adopted by the Northern Ireland Office for the areas within its control. While it is impossible to list all specific measures taken to achieve these targets, they include programmes of training in energy awareness for key staff, regular monitoring of buildings' energy performance, and investment in energy efficiency measures.These measures have resulted in the following year on year savings since 1997:
| 1997–98 | 1998–99 | 1999–2000 | 2000–01 | 2001–02 | 2002–03 |
| 723,000 | 921,000 | 846,000 | 761,000 | 895,000 | 1,042,000 |