Coal: Exports
(asked on 6th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many tonnes of coal the UK has exported in the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 11th January 2017
The table below gives the amount of coal which the UK exported in the last 10 years:
| UK Coal Exports (thousand tonnes) |
2006 | 443 |
2007 | 544 |
2008 | 599 |
2009 | 646 |
2010 | 715 |
2011 | 491 |
2012 | 488 |
2013 | 593 |
2014 | 425 |
2015 | 385 |
Total | 5,331 |
Source: Table DUKES 2.4 Digest of UK Energy Statistics, July 2016, available at: