Carbon Emissions
Home Department
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps her Department took to reduce its carbon emissions in (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012.
Damian Green (Minister of State (Immigration), Home Office; Ashford, Conservative)
The Home Office has reduced emissions by reducing the size of its estate, the amount of travel on official business and energy consumption in its buildings. Building measures have included incentivised energy management contracts, increased efficiency of IT use and investments in energy technology such as voltage optimisation, variable speed drives and lighting controls. A reduction of 14.6% has been achieved in emissions since 2010.