To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate he has made of the amount of waste arising from his Department in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 (i) in total and (ii) per full-time equivalent member of staff. (281014)

The Department for Children, Schools and Families makes an annual report to the Sustainable Development Commission on waste arising as part of their returns for the Sustainable Development in Government (SDiG) report.

From the 2007 and 2008 SDiG Reports (available in full at

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

under ‘Publications’) waste arising for the office estate was reported as (a) 1,918 tonnes in 2006-07 and (b) 2,678 tonnes in 2007-08 which equated to (aii) 0.32 tonnes per full-time equivalent and (bii) 0.39 tonnes per full-time equivalent.