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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of the total biomass used to produce energy in the last year came from (a) domestically sourced wood and (b) imported wood.

In 2016 (the latest year for which data are available), the UK energy demand for biomass was 8,542 thousand tonnes of oil equivalent (ktoe). Of this,

a) 46 per cent (3,935 ktoe) was domestically sourced wood, and;

b) 36 per cent (3,071 ktoe) was imported wood.

[1] Wood includes waste wood, wood, and wood pellets

[2] An estimate has been made for the proportion of wood pellets included in the plant biomass category in DUKES