HC Deb 20 February 1997 vol 290 cc701-2W
Mr. Martyn Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the ways in which his Department has demonstrated the ability to improve efficiency and competitiveness through an environmental audit of waste management within those buildings his Department occupies; and if he will make a statement. [16416]

Mr. Horam

In the buildings for which it is responsible, the Department of Health operates an effective energy and environment action plan, which promotes all aspects of green housekeeping and which is reviewed regularly.

Each of our main buildings has been equipped with recycling facilities for common waste items for some time and we continue to look at ways of extending the range of waste collected for recycling. We now monitor the volumes of waste in these buildings to give a quantitative measure of the progress we are making in this area.