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Departmental Air Travel

Volume 482: debated on Tuesday 4 November 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 14 July 2008, Official Report, column 27W, on carbon emissions: Government departments, how much air mileage incurred through departmental travel was used to calculate the departmental payment to the Government Carbon Offsetting Fund in each year that his Department has participated in the fund, broken down by (a) domestic, (b) short haul and (c) long haul flights. (221952)

The mileage incurred during departmental travel is as follows:

(a) Domestic: 11,436

(b) Short haul: 37,058

(c) Long haul: 11,9870