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Departmental Carbon Emissions

Volume 506: debated on Monday 1 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what estimate he has made of the amount of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department's buildings in each year since 2005. (318834)

The Department for International Development (DFID) records and reports its environmental performance on a financial year basis. Data on energy use on the UK estate, and the corresponding carbon emissions, is reported in accordance with the "Sustainable Operations on the Government Estate" targets and is available on the websites of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) and the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC).

The carbon dioxide emissions from our UK estate since 2005 were as follows:

Tonnes

2005-06

4,574

2006-07

4,607

2007-08

4,387

2008-09

3,945