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Departmental Carbon Emissions

Volume 494: debated on Thursday 25 June 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the volume of carbon dioxide emissions from offices in his Department in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 (i) in total and (ii) per full-time equivalent member of staff. (280955)

The Department for Communities and Local Government produced the following quantities of carbon dioxide emissions in 2006-7 and 2007-8:

Communities and Local Government—Central Offices

Total carbon dioxide (tonnes)

Total carbon dioxide per FTE (tonnes)

2006-07

8,613

2.3

2007-08

6,998

2.5

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the volume of carbon dioxide emissions arising from road-based transport of administrative operations by his Department in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 (i) in total and (ii) per full-time equivalent member of staff. (281007)

The Department for Communities and Local Government generated the following quantities of carbon dioxide from road-based transport through administrative operations in 2006-07 and 2007-08:

Tonnes

Communities and local Government—central offices

2006-07

2007-08

Carbon dioxide

252

211

Carbon dioxide per FTE

0.10

0.08

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the volume of carbon dioxide emissions arising from air travel by staff in his Department in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 (i) in total and (ii) per full-time equivalent member of staff. (281008)

The Department for Communities and Local Government generated the following quantities of carbon dioxide arising from air travel in 2006-07 and 2007-08:

Tonnes

Communities and local Government —central offices

2006-07

2007-08

Carbon dioxide

233

236

Carbon dioxide per FTE

0.06

0.09