Fuel Oil: Greenhouse Gas Emissions

(asked on 15th October 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the greenhouse gas emissions generated by the use of residential heating oil are in (a) Wales, (b) Scotland, (c) Northern Ireland, (d) England and (e) the UK.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 26th October 2021

The following table shows estimated greenhouse gas emission from the domestic combustion of oil in the UK in 2019 by country, measured in million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e), from the UK’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory.

Greenhouse gas emission from the domestic combustion of oil in the UK in 2019 (MtCO2e)

England

3.1

Northern Ireland

1.8

Scotland

0.6

Wales

0.6

UK total

6.2

Source: UK Greenhouse Gas Inventory, BEIS
Note: figures do not add up to total due to rounding

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