Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of his Department's energy usage in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021.
My Department is based in two leased sites, 1 Horse Guards Road, London and Stormont House, Belfast. In London, energy charges are included within the leasing arrangement from the landlord, Her Majesty's Treasury and my Department does not hold any figures for energy usage. In Belfast, the cost of energy usage is shown below.
Year | Electricity | Gas |
2019 | £51,637.66 | £10,503.24 |
2020 | £60,006.70 | £12,446.45 |
2021 (to date) | £26,186.12 | £9,677.60 |