To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what steps he has taken to reduce his Department’s carbon dioxide emissions in 2008-09. (181842)

Since 1999 my Department has made progress in energy efficiencies by reducing the size of the property estate space by 46 per cent. with a decrease of 11.2 per cent. in energy consumption.

BERR will continue to make energy efficiencies and improvements during 2008-09.