Home Office: Energy

(asked on 17th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much energy was used by her Department's buildings in (a) 2020 to date and (b) each of the last five years.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 22nd June 2020

The amount of energy used by the Home Office in each of the last five years is as follows:

Financial Year

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

Energy (MWh)

128,067

132,752

124,560

114,134

115,858

Data is not yet available for any part of 2020-21 as this is collated quarterly in arrears.

The department is committed to reducing its carbon emissions on a trajectory to Net Zero by 2050 or sooner; and has reduced its total emissions by 55% by 2019-20 compared to 2009-10.

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