To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what mechanisms are in place to ensure her Department’s economical use of paper. (128012)

Paper supplied for use in the Department’s laser copiers and facilities management document copying machines is of 100 per cent. post-consumer waste materials.

The Department’s facilities management contractor operates a waste paper recycling scheme whereby collections are made on a regular basis through the organisation.

The Department’s publications, where printed, use paper material of no less than 75 per cent. post-consumer waste. Any printed publications to be destroyed by the Department’s storage contractors are sent for pulping and recycling into new products.