Glass: Manufacturing Industries

(asked on 10th January 2018) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much coal was used for the production of different types of glass in each year since 1992 for which data is available; and if he will make a statement.


This question was answered on 16th January 2018

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy does not hold coal consumption statistics at this level of disaggregation; however, the table below presents the final consumption of coal by the UK mineral products industry as a whole from 2005 to 2016:

Final consumption of coal by the UK mineral products industry, 2005 – 2016:

Thousand tonnes

Thousand tonnes

2005

1,120

2011

1,056

2006

1,047

2012

1,123

2007

1,150

2013

1,338

2008

1,150

2014

1,239

2009

1,077

2015

1,048

2010

1,063

2016

813

Source: Digest of UK Energy Statistics, table 2.4, available at

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solid-fuels-and-derived-gases-chapter-2-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes

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