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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate he has made of the quantity of Russian produced diesel that is utilised for transport in the UK.

Annual data on the imports of diesel from Russia are published in the Digest of UK Energy Statistics (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/petroleum-chapter-3-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes). In 2020 Russian imports of diesel totalled 3,608 thousand tonnes. All of UK demand for diesel is for transport.

The UK is a significant producer of both crude oil and petroleum products, and in the case of diesel, UK demand is met by a combination of domestic production and imports from a diverse range of reliable suppliers beyond Russia including Norway, Saudi Arabia and the USA.

The Government is working closely with industry to ensure that the UK will phase out imports of Russian oil in response to Vladimir Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine by the end of the year.