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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the amount of coal reserves that have planning permission to be mined for each year since 2010; and if he will make a statement.

Chapter 2 of the annual Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) includes data on coal reserves broken down by planning permission stage. The latest data for 2017 is available here (Table 2C):

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

Historical editions of DUKES are available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/digest-of-uk-energy-statistics-dukes