§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give the number of dedicated energy managers in his Department and the number of person-years devoted to energy management in the latest year.
§ Mr. AtkinsEnergy management responsibilities form part of the duties of eight officials, with the major co-ordinating role being undertaken by a senior executive officer. The total time devoted to this activity is 0.5 man years per annum.
§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give for each available year from 1978 the amount invested in improving the energy efficiency of his Department in(a) cash terms and (b) 1990–91 money terms.
§ Mr. AtkinsThe information requested is not available for the period prior to the 1988–89 financial year. For recent years, the position is as follows:
Financial year Current prices £ 1990–91 prices1 £ 1988–89 228,000 32,093 1989–90 10,000 10,775 1990–91 3161,000 161,000 1 Revalued using the GDP deflators. 2 Resources provided by the Property Services Agency. 3 Relates to provision of secondary glazing to mitigate noise pollution from the Channel Tunnel Terminal construction work at Waterloo. Some energy efficiency gains will accrue from the installation of the secondary glazing. A major portion of the cost of the work was provided by British Railways.
§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give for each available year from 1978 the energy consumption, broken down by fuel, of the buildings occupied by his Department, expressing the figures in(a) cash terms, (b) 1990–91 money terms and (c) units of consumption for electricity in kilowatt hours, gas in therms, liquid fuel in litres and solid fuel in tonnes; and if he will give the square footage of accommodation to which these figures relate.
§ Mr. AtkinsThe PSA was responsible for processing the Department's energy bills until the end of June 1990. Complete data are not therefore available for the period prior to the 1989–90 financial year. Details for 1989–90 are as follows:
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1989–90 prices £ 1990–91 prices £ Consumption Electricity 269,843 290,757 4,833,851 KWh Gas 31,771 34,233 96,349 Therms Oil 50,384 54,289 433,990 Litres Solid Fuel nil nil nil The above statistics relate to accommodation totalling 451,513 sq ft.
Some bills relating to energy consumed in the 1990.91 financial year are still outstanding. It is therefore not possible to provide complete statistics for 1990–91 yet.
§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give the number of energy audits carried out in his Department in the past five years and for each audit a statement of its main conclusions.
§ Mr. AtkinsThere has been one energy audit conducted in the DES during the last five years. However, energy usage is monitored regularly.
An energy audit of the Department's main headquarters building in London, undertaken in mid-1990, concluded that it was possible to make useful energy savings by installing modern lighting, lighting control sensors, and by fine-tuning boilers, air-conditioning plant and the hot water system. The audit also concluded that capital outlay was not justified on the installation of modern lighting and control sensors because there was insufficient pay-back time left prior to the move of its London headquarters to new premises. The fine-tuning adjustments have all been implemented.