Tom Greatrex – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

November 2, 2022 admin 2014, Parliamentary Question, Tom Greatrex

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Greatrex on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of his Department’s consumption in kWh of (a) gas and (b) electricity in each month since June 2010; and what the cost of such consumption has been in each such month.

Dr Daniel Poulter

The Department’s consumption in kWh of gas and electricity in each month since June 2010 are detailed in the following tables.

Gas Consumption

kWh	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15
April		383,308	375,498	410,643	300,833
May		334,299	291,491	268,638	231,365
June	214,194	342,759	135,620	171,941
July	184,049	238,429	52,692	135,238
August	270,592	179,116	96,602	144,629
September	275,325	172,324	82,137	162,901
October	404,226	191,563	249,232	187,581
November	549,699	315,677	365,295	378,302
December	814,163	448,970	430,231	500,407
January	644,972	497,774	537,957	504,784
February	554,519	549,609	521,341	460,338
March	623,455	475,765	542,183	399,659

Electricity Consumption

kWh	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15
April		775,333	727,906	743,420	734,079
May		828,597	817,660	737,329	743,728
June	1,058,570	879,532	758,422	708,423
July	1,119,452	861,447	828,709	1,011,360
August	1,007,127	848,332	827,468	834,372
September	950,584	845,520	740,170	725,554
October	915,324	824,037	813,384	729,868
November	928,702	809,542	735,035	712,812
December	949,551	812,427	732,011	709,999
January	920,671	842,769	811,067	779,265
February	814,015	820,963	727,292	689,548
March	895,910	820,483	746,071	738,869

Gas and Electricity Costs

The Department’s previous way of processing energy bills, makes it difficult to provide meaningful and relevant monthly costs for earlier years but the annual expenditure for 2009-12 is as follows:

Year	Gas	Electricity
2009-10	£160,572	£1,253,708
2010-11	£117,690	£862,052
2011-12	£139,343	£1,145,671

The following table outlines the monthly costs of gas and electricity consumption in the Department’s buildings from April 2012-13 to March 2013-14.

	Gas		Electricity
	2012-13	2013-14	2012-13	2013-14
April	£18,380	£13,986	£85,855	£92,087
May	£10,562	£9,197	£95,095	£89,211
June	£6,290	£6,368	£88,712	£85,445
July	£8,236	£5,205	£96,871	£121,466
August	£5,399	£5,480	£94,554	£99,521
September	£6,193	£6,105	£84,633	£87,487
October	£12,764	£ 7,748	£86,575	£87,917
November	£15,734	£13,337	£82,322	£86,119
December	£17,416	£16,644	£80,016	£86,529
January	£18,246	£17,817	£90,733	£90,179
February	£19,580	£15,973	£77,247	£82,419
March	£20,512	£14,369	£63,457	£65,760

These figures relate to buildings occupied by departmental staff, where the Department is directly responsible for payment of gas and electric bills and can provide monthly consumption figures. This covers Richmond House, Skipton House, Wellington House, Premier House and Premier Buildings (vacated in November 2012).

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