Coal: Mining

(asked on 8th April 2019) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish the (a) names and (b) locations of surface coal mines in the UK that are scheduled to cease producing coal for all purposes; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
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Claire Perry
This question was answered on 16th April 2019

The list of surface coal mines, their locations and the date of when they are currently licensed until is below, as at March 2019. To note applications can be made to extend licences so the licence date shown is not necessarily when a mine will cease production of coal.

Name of mine

Location

Currently Licensed Until

Bradley

Durham

17/08/2020

Brenkley Lane

Newcastle upon Tyne

01/09/2021

East Pit East Revised

Neath Port Talbot

21/10/2104

Ffos-y-Fran

Merthyr Tydfil

04/02/2097

Field House

Durham

07/11/2020

Glan Lash

Carmarthenshire

31/03/2019

Halton-Le-Gate

Northumberland

04/07/2019

Harrington Reclamation

Derbyshire

07/01/2025

House of Water

East Ayrshire

04/12/2019

Nant Helen

Powys

08/07/2019

Shotton Surface Mine

Northumberland

31/01/2020

Shotton SW & Triangle

Northumberland

31/01/2020

Reticulating Splines