Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will publish production and manpower returns showing how much coal was extracted (a) on the surface and (b) underground in each county in (i) England and (ii) Wales in each month between January and April 2023; for what reason the UK Coal Authority has not yet published this information for the first quarter of 2023; and if he will make a statement.

The January to March figures are published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/coal-mining-production-and-manpower-returns-statistics-2023.

These will be published on a quarterly basis hereafter.