Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure security of supply for diesel.
The Department has established an Oil Taskforce to work with the sector and support oil companies to identify additional sources of supplies of oil and oil products and manage the transition away from Russian oil products by the end of 2022.
The UK remains well-supplied for diesel from a diverse range of sources. UK demand for diesel is met by a combination of domestic production and imports. In 2021 UK production could have met over half of our demand for diesel. Imports in the same year came from a diverse range of reliable suppliers beyond Russia including the Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden.