National Highways: Carbon Emissions

(asked on 21st February 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2025 to Question 27405 on Highways England: Carbon Emissions, what the carbon emissions were by (a) source and (b) activity in each year since 2014.


Answered by
Lilian Greenwood Portrait
Lilian Greenwood
Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
This question was answered on 3rd March 2025

Below is a breakdown of National Highways’ (NH) Carbon Emissions, covering the period 2021/22 to 2023/24.

Carbon emissions prior to this were not reported to this level and are not available.

Year

Breakdown by activity/source

2021-22

Activity/emission source

tCO2e

Electricity (kWh used)

39,797

Building heating (kWh used)

4,584

Fleet (miles travelled)

4,159

Business travel (miles travelled)

1,848

Total

50,388

2022-23

Activity/emission source

tCO2e

Electricity (kWh used)

35,165

Building heating (kWh used)

4,770

Fleet (miles travelled)

2,887

Business travel (miles travelled)

1,987

Total

44,809

2023-24

Activity/emission source

tCO2e

Electricity (kWh used)

35,840

Building heating (kWh used)

5,029

Fleet (miles travelled)

2,212

Business travel (miles travelled)

2,185

Total

45,266

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