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Departmental Carbon Emissions

Volume 495: debated on Wednesday 8 July 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 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. (280951)

The estimate from carbon dioxide emissions from offices is as follows:

Tonnes of carbon dioxide

In total

2006-07: 4,615

2007-08: 2,251

Per full-time equivalent member of staff

2006-07: 5.560

2007-08: 3.19

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 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. (281003)

The Department has made the following estimate of carbon dioxide arising from road-based transport of administrative operations.

Total

2006-07: 3.309 tonnes of CO2

2007-08: 4.39 tonnes of CO2

Per full-time equivalent member of staff

2006-07: .005 tonnes of CO2

2007-08: .006 tonnes of CO2.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 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. (281004)

The Department has made the following estimate on the amount of carbon dioxide emissions arising from air travel from staff:

Total

2006-07: 172 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions

2007-08: 125.78 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions

Per full-time equivalent member of staff

2006-07: 0.207 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions

2007-08: 0.16 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.