§ Mr. DafisTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many civil servants have been allocated new or additional responsibilities to deal with the management and development of green issues; and what additional allocation of resources has been made to support programmes related to green issues in his Department.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeEnvironmental policies are closely integrated into the day-to-day operations of my 929W Department and all staff are expected to take due account of them in the course of their work. Environmental policies have generally been pursued within existing resources and in most cases it is not possible separately to identify the resources devoted to them. The following elements are however separately identifiable: (i) expenditure on energy efficiency measures for the prison estate amounting to £1.517 million in 1991–92; (ii) the Department's energy management group, which has been in existence since 1981 and comprises 5.3 staff; and (iii) expenditure of some £50,000 during 1992–93 on the fitting of power factor correctors, automatic lighting controls, water meters and automatic VDU controls in Home Office buildings