§ Sue DoughtyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the voluntary targets for energy use in NHS capital schemes have been made mandatory; what progress his Department has made in revising the NHS carbon dioxide standard of heat insultation; if it is his intention to bring the revised NHS carbon dioxide standard into line with the current British Standard for heat insulation (BS 5422, as revised in 2001); and whether any further upward revision of BS 5422 resulting from this review will be followed without delay by an equivalent upward revision of NHS carbon dioxide. [132333]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonI refer the hon. Member to the response I gave on Monday 6 October 2003,Official Report, column 1289W.
In that reply, MES CO2 is purely a reference number for the NHS Estates model engineering specification on thermal insulation and does not relate to carbon dioxide.