To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what recent progress his Department has made towards its target for energy efficiency per square metre of its Estate; and if he will make a statement. (266887)

The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) has a target to reduce its energy consumption to 283.9 kWh per square metre by 2011/12.

The returns for the 2007-08 Sustainable Operation of the Government Estate (SOGE) showed that the DCSF estate consumed 325 kWh of energy per square metre. The full report can be found under the following link at:

http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/sdig2008/

This has reduced from 334 kWh/m2 in the baseline year 1999/2000.