Request
Can the DCSF supply information on the following:
- How many toilets are in DCSF office building(s)?
- What capacity are the cisterns and if they're on automatic flushes, how often to they flush?
- How many toilet rolls did you use in the financial year 2007-2008?
- How much was spent on toilet rolls in the DCSF buildings in the financial year 2007-2008?
- How much handsoap did the Department use in litres in the financial year 2007-2008?
- How many bars of soap did the Department use in the financial year 2007-2008?
- Can the Department calculate the number of litres of water that were flushed during 2007-08?
Release
Below are responses to each of the points raised:
- How many toilets do you have in your office building(s)? 393
- What capacity are the cisterns and if they're on automatic flushes how often do they flush? Five litres each cistern, and all manual flushes.
- How many toilet rolls did you use in the financial year 2007-2008? 50,988
- How much was spent on toilet roll in your office buildings in the financial year 2007-2008? £23,982
- How much handsoap did you use in litres in the financial year 07-08? 2,236 litres
- How much was spent on hand soap in your office buildings in the financial year 2007-2008? £7487
- How many bars of soap did you use in the financial year 07-08? Nil
- How much was spent on bars of soap in your office buildings in the financial year 2007-2008? Nil
- If you can calculate the number of litres of water that were flushed during 07-08? Unfortunately the DCSF cannot separately identify water used for flushing toilets from the overall water consumption and are therefore unable to provide this information.
