Coal

(asked on 17th October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2018 to Question 176140 on coal, what tonnage of house coal was the calculation based on that 3.3 kilotonnes of PM2.5 emissions were produced by burning house coal in the UK in 2016; and if he will make a statement.


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Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 24th October 2018

The 3.3 kilotonnes of PM2.5 emissions from domestic burning of coal is based on the figure of 361.88 kilotonnes, taken from the 2016 Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics.

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