VoteClimate: Departmental Carbon Emissions - 17th March 2010

Departmental Carbon Emissions - 17th March 2010

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Departmental Carbon Emissions.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2010-03-17/debates/10031769000008/DepartmentalCarbonEmissions

Stewart Hosie

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the amount of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department's buildings in each year since 2005. ( 316795 )

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Mr. Woolas

Central Government Departments and their Executive agencies report carbon dioxide emission data from their offices annually as part of the Sustainable Development in Government (SDiG) reporting process. The latest assessment of government's performance against these targets was published by the Sustainable Development Commission on 18 December 2009

The following table provides a breakdown for carbon dioxide emissions from offices in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07, (c) 2007-08 and (d) 2008-09 by the Department, as previously reported:

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