To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what proportion of his Department's overall procurement spend for each of the previous three financial years was (a) spent on joint procurement exercises with other Departments and (b) shared between different organisations within the same Department group.

The information requested is not held centrally and can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

The Department uses Crown Commercial Services framework agreements that are compiled on behalf of the whole of Government. From April to the end of November 2013 the Department has spent £25,094,543 through these arrangements.