Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of his Department's energy usage in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021.
Energy costs for electricity and natural gas for the Department’s buildings in 2019/20 and 2020/21 are shown in the following table. Data for 2021/22 is not yet available.
Year | Gas £ | Electricity £ |
2019/20 | 134,172 | 1,398,290 |
2020/21 | 217,130 | 1,661,198 |