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EDF Energy

Volume 480: debated on Monday 6 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agency has with EDF; and how much (i) his Department and (ii) its agency paid to EDF in each of the last 10 years, broken down by the purpose of the payment. (221850)

The information is as follows:

(a) The Department buys its electricity from EDF through the OGC Buying Solutions and is invoiced directly for this service. It does not have a direct contract with EDF.

(b) Our agency, the Royal Parks has one current contract for the supply of electricity with EDF.

(i) Payments over the past 10 years have been for electricity supply only. The Department only holds partial figures as prior to 2004-05, the payment for electricity on Cockspur street was being made directly by our previous facilities management contractors. The figures are broken down as follows:

£

1998-99

63,378

1999-2000

46,427

2000-01

43,244

2001-02

47,232

2002-03

36,016

2003-04

52,745

2004-05

188,092

2005-06

253,620

2006-07

308,205

2007-08

276,742

(ii) Payments over the last 10 years for the Royal Parks are as follows:

£

1999-2000

110,929

2000-01

101,533

2001-02

90,341

2002-03

111,098

2003-04

100,713

2004-05

105,763

2005-06

131,032

2006-07

141,196

2007-08

55,554

2008-09 (to date)

21,000