Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government what was the quantity of coal required to run Port Talbot steel works at full scale operations; and what is the equivalent in electricity usage.

The quantities of coal and equivalent electricity usage at Port Talbot steelworks is commercially sensitive information held by Tata Steel UK. However, HMG understands that coal is used throughout Port Talbot steelworks in various functions to feed the blast furnaces, via the Morfa Coke Ovens (which as announced on 20 March by Tata Steel, are being closed) and Injection Plant.

Coal is an emission dense power source, and the implementation of an electric arc furnace will reduce UK territorial emissions by 1.4%.