To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many responses to the Heat and Energy Saving Strategy Consultation had been received on the latest date for which figures are available. (265085)

The Heat and Energy Saving Strategy (HES) Consultation was launched on 12 February 2009. As of 7 April the consultation website had received over 40 responses. Respondents are free to change or even delete their responses until the website closes so these responses are not yet officially completed.

To accompany the formal written HES consultation, and also consultations on the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT) and the Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP), a series of stakeholder events were held across Great Britain during March. These were part of the open and active consultation process to raise awareness of the proposals and encourage responses. Feedback from these events will contribute to the consultation responses.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much he expects his Department's Heat and Energy Saving Strategy Consultation to cost. (265086)

I refer the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Minister of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Mr. Mike O’Brien) on 25 March 2009, Official Report, columns 499-500W.