To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much his Department spent on carbon offsetting in each of the last three years; and to which companies payments for carbon offsetting have been made in each such year. (204096)

My Department has offset its carbon emissions for the last two years.

The costs, to the Wales Office, of offsets were:

April 2007—£4307.80

March 2008—£747.20.

On both occasions the carbon offsetting was through “PURE the clean planet Trust”.