To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills whether it is his Department’s policy to use (a) incandescent light bulbs and (b) LED lights for festive decorations on departmental premises. (173499)

The Department uses incandescent lights for its festive decorations. However, we shall be reviewing our policy for next year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what his Department’s policy is on the selection of (a) real and (b) artificial Christmas trees for his Department’s festive decorations; and how real trees are disposed of. (173524)

The Department is split across sites and has four Christmas Trees on its Estate. Two of these trees are real and are recycled by our foliage company. One of the artificial trees is reused each year. The other artificial tree is hired from our foliage company and returned to them at the end of the hire period.