To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how much was spent by his Department and its agencies on the hire of mobile air conditioning units in each of the last five years. (151935)

I am unable to answer the question in respect of the Department's HQ Estate as the information is not held in an easily retrievable format and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

The agencies spent £3,700 on hiring mobile air conditioning units in 2006, but nothing in the four previous years