division_name: Orders of the Day &#8212; New Clause 18 &#8212; Report on the civil estate
motion: <p pid="b.824.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes">'(1) It is the duty of the Office of Government Commerce to lay before Parliament each year a report setting out the progress Her Majesty's Government has made towards improving the efficiency and sustainability of its civil estate.</p>
  
  <p pid="b.824.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">(2) The report must include the progress made towards&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="b.824.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">(a) reducing the size of the civil estate;</p>
  
  <p pid="b.824.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">(b) improving the sustainability of the buildings that already form part of the civil estate; and</p>
  
  <p pid="b.824.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">(c) ensuring that any new buildings procured for the civil estate are in the upper quartile of energy performance.</p>
  
  <p pid="b.824.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">(3) Where any new building procured for the civil estate is not in the upper quartile of energy performance, the report must state the reasons why this is the case.</p>
  
  <p pid="b.824.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">(4) A report under this section must be laid before Parliament not later than 1st June in the year in which it is to be so laid.'.&#8212;<i> [Joan Ruddock.]</i></p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b.824.1/8" pwmotiontext="yes"> Brought up, read the First time and added to the Bill.</p>
  
  <p pid="b.824.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> Question put,</i> That Government amendments Nos. 1, 28 to 31, 72 and 32 to 47 be made.</p>
  
  <p pid="b.824.1/10" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> The House divided:</i> Ayes 476, Noes 5.</p>