HC Deb 03 June 1991 vol 192 cc131-2W
Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 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. Archie Hamilton

In 1990–91 the MOD invested some £12 million in specific energy-saving measures throughout the defence estate. Additional sums which are incorporated as part of major general works programmes are not separately identifiable. Figures for earlier years are not readily available. My noble Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces will write to the hon. Member.

Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 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. Archie Hamilton

Staff devoted wholly or mainly to energy management in the Ministry of Defence represented about 15 person-years of effort in 1990–91. A much larger number of personnel were employed as energy wardens at units and establishments on a part-time basis. The proportion of energy wardens' time devoted to energy management is not separately recorded.

Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 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. Archie Hamilton

The Ministry of Defence has carried out 346 energy audits over the last five years. It is not practicable to summarise the findings of this number of audits without disproportionate cost.

Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 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. Archie Hamilton

The information is not available in the form requested. Expenditure on consumption of non-operational fuel on the defence estate in 1989–90, the latest available, was as follows:

£000
Electricity 159,989
Gas 39,868
Solid fuel 9,576
Liquid fuel 42,854

For details of expenditure in earlier years and other available information I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 5 June 1990 columns 428–29.