To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the percentage of electricity used by his Department which was derived from renewable sources in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08. (280957)

The Department for Communities and Local Government derived the following amounts of electricity from renewable sources between 2006 and 2008:

The Department obtains its renewable energy through the office of Government commerce’s green tariff energy contract.