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Written Question

Fossil Fuels

Wednesday 21st September 2016

Asked by: Baroness McGregor-Smith (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of the UK’s energy supply was produced from fossil fuels in each year between 1997 and 2015.

Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Shadow Minister (Treasury)

The proportion of the UK’s energy supply produced from fossil fuels in each year between 1997 and 2015 is shown in the table.

Year	Proportion (%)
1997	88.1
1998	88.3
1999	88.6
2000	89.9
2001	89.6
2002	89.5
2003	89.8
2004	90.2
2005	89.9
2006	90.1
2007	91.2
2008	91.2
2009	88.9
2010	89.5
2011	87.3
2012	87.1
2013	85.8
2014	84.3
2015	82.0

Data are published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in the Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics (DUKES) 2016, table 1.1.1.