To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he has taken to reduce his Department’s carbon dioxide emissions in 2008-09. (181810)

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) started implementing a Carbon Management Programme, developed with the Carbon Trust, in 2007. This will help to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions on the FCO’s UK estate in 2008-09. The programme includes technological, procurement, transport, housekeeping and awareness raising responses to the issue.