VoteClimate: Oral Answers to Questions - 10th March 2010

Oral Answers to Questions - 10th March 2010

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Oral Answers to Questions.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2010-03-10/debates/10031061000005/OralAnswersToQuestions

Paul Holmes (Chesterfield) (LD)

7. What discussions she had with ministerial colleagues on reducing levels of carbon dioxide emissions attributable to the use of information and communications technology in Government Departments. ( 321244 )

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Paul Holmes

Carbon emissions from ICT are one part of a very poor picture overall. The Minister has received £681,000 of public money from the Department of Energy and Climate Change as part of a low-carbon technology scheme. Is she confident that that will be well spent when, of the 13 Cabinet Office buildings, none has received an energy efficient rating, and five, including Downing street, got a worse rating in 2008-09 than they did in the previous year?

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