HC Deb 17 October 2001 vol 372 c1250W
Mr. Colman

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans the Government have to legislate for a 30 per cent. improvement in the energy efficiency of the Government Estate. [5669]

Mr. Meacher

[holding answer 20 July 2001]: Further to the current 20 per cent. improvement target, we are developing new realistic, but challenging energy efficiency targets for the Government estate. These will be based on an assessment of the estate's performance against national standards, which will be available next year.

We are currently analysing the latest information about the estate's energy efficiency performance over the past decade, details of which will be announced next month.