Coal

(asked on 10th October 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Philip Davies Portrait
Philip Davies
(Conservative - Shipley)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much coal the UK has used for non-power generating purposes in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.

Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 18th October 2016

(a) The table below gives the amount of coal used for non-power generating purposes:

UK coal demand for non-electricity generating purposes(1) (thousand tonnes)

2006

10,156

2007

10,158

2008

10,577

2009

9,037

2010

9,827

2011

9,658

2012

9,141

2013

10,139

2014

10,021

2015

8,174

(1) Includes coal used for heat generation, coke manufacture, blast furnaces, patent fuel manufacture, energy used in coal extraction and final consumption by industry, transport, domestic and other users.

Source: Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) table 2.4 available at

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

(b) BEIS does not hold data at that level. BEIS cannot disaggregate coal used by the carbon fibre industry from coal used by all industries.

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