Coal: Reserves

(asked on 12th March 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Philip Davies Portrait
Philip Davies
(Conservative - Shipley)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the Coal Authority's most recent estimate is of coal reserves in the UK; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by
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Claire Perry
This question was answered on 22nd March 2018

The Coal Authority operates across Great Britain only. The following table shows estimated GB coal reserves as at 14 June 2017:

Million tonnes of reserves

England

Scotland

Wales

Total

Current sites and licences(1)

353

149

36

538

Prospects

2,516

115

197

2,827

Total

2,869

264

233

3,365

  1. Current sites and licences include operational mines, planning granted, in planning process and pre-planning.

  2. Totals may not sum due to rounding.

    The data is provided by the Coal Authority and published in the Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES), table 2C, available at:

    https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/632495/Chapter_2.pdf

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