To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many reams of paper his Department (a) used and (b) recycled on average in weeks when Parliament was sitting in 2006-07. (150875)

[holding answer 19 July 2007]: From information held centrally, between 1 November 2006 and 30 June 2007 the Department and its executive agencies used 129,028 reams of paper.

In financial year 2006-07, the Department and its executive agencies recycled 859,881 kilograms of paper.