Coal Fired Power Stations: Overseas Aid
(asked on 19th November 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2020 to Question 91998, how much funding the Government has provided to (a) thermal coal mining and (b) coal power plants overseas in each of the last 10 years.
Support provided by UK Export Finance (UKEF) takes the form of guarantees, loans or insurance fully funded by premiums.
Until this year UKEF did not seek details of whether the exported goods would be used for thermal or metallurgical coal; the table below therefore represents support related to the sector in general.
UKEF has provided the following support for (a) coal mining and (b) coal power plants overseas during the last ten years:
| Coal mining | Coal power plants |
2010/11 | 0 | 0 |
2011/12 | £16.7m | 0 |
2012/13 | £52.2m | 0 |
2013/14 | 0 | 0 |
2014/15 | 0 | 0 |
2015/16 | 0 | 0 |
2016/17 | £23m | 0 |
2017/18 | 0 | 0 |
2018/19 | 0 | 0 |
2019/20 | £59.9m | 0 |