Departmental Electricity

Mr. Paice
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.

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

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|Communities and local Government—central offices|2006-07|2007-08|
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|Renewable electricity                           |92     |91     |
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The Department obtains its renewable energy through the office of Government commerce’s green tariff energy contract.