Departmental Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate she has made of the volume of carbon dioxide emissions arising from road-based transport used for administrative operations by her Department in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 (i) in total and (ii) per full-time equivalent member of staff. (281038)

The estimate of the carbon dioxide emissions arising from road-based transport for administrative operations by my Department in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 (i) in total and (ii) per full-time equivalent member of staff are:

*Department for Work and Pensions—carbon dioxide emissions from road-based transport*
	(a) 2006-07	(b) 2007-08
(i) Total CO₂ emissions (tonnes)	22,278.96	17,662.93
Full-time equivalent staff	111,734	104,830
(ii) CO₂ emissions per full-time equivalent member of staff (tonnes)	0.199	0.169

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate she has made of the volume of carbon dioxide emissions arising from air travel by staff in her Department in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 (i) in total and (ii) per full-time equivalent member of staff. (281039)

The estimate of the carbon dioxide emissions arising from air travel by staff by the Department in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 (i) in total and (ii) per full-time equivalent member of staff are:

*Department for Work and Pensions—carbon dioxide emissions from air travel*
	(a) 2006-07	(b) 2007-08
(i) total CO₂ emissions (tonnes)	4,633.42	2,789.21
Full-time equivalent staff	111,734	104,830
(ii) CO₂ emissions per full-time equivalent member of staff (tonnes)	0.04	0.03

Volume 494: debated on Thursday 25 June 2009