National Highways: Carbon Emissions

(asked on 21st February 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2025 to Question 27405 on Highways England: Carbon Emissions, what the carbon emissions were by (a) source and (b) activity in each year since 2014.


Answered by
Lilian Greenwood Portrait
Lilian Greenwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 3rd March 2025

Below is a breakdown of National Highways’ (NH) Carbon Emissions, covering the period 2021/22 to 2023/24.

Carbon emissions prior to this were not reported to this level and are not available.

Year

Breakdown by activity/source

2021-22

Activity/emission source

tCO2e

Electricity (kWh used)

39,797

Building heating (kWh used)

4,584

Fleet (miles travelled)

4,159

Business travel (miles travelled)

1,848

Total

50,388

2022-23

Activity/emission source

tCO2e

Electricity (kWh used)

35,165

Building heating (kWh used)

4,770

Fleet (miles travelled)

2,887

Business travel (miles travelled)

1,987

Total

44,809

2023-24

Activity/emission source

tCO2e

Electricity (kWh used)

35,840

Building heating (kWh used)

5,029

Fleet (miles travelled)

2,212

Business travel (miles travelled)

2,185

Total

45,266

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