Energy Supply

(asked on 13th June 2016) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of the proportion of UK energy consumption that was supplied by other countries in each of the last 10 years.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 27th June 2016

The UK’s net import dependency is published in DECC’s Energy Trends table 1.3, and is reproduced below:

Import dependence

2006

21.3%

2007

20.6%

2008

26.3%

2009

27.0%

2010

28.6%

2011

36.7%

2012

43.1%

2013

47.1%

2014

46.2%

2015

38.6%

Source: DECC Energy Trends, March 2015

In 2015, the UK’s net imports of 79.5 million tonnes of oil equivalent accounted for 38.6% of the UK’s primary consumption of energy.

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