Peat Bogs: Biofuels
(asked on 16th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the land area of UK peatlands in hectares that is used for the production of crops for biofuels.
This question was answered on 22nd November 2022
In 2020 just under 36,000 hectares of British crops consisting of wheat and sugar beet were used for biofuels supplied to the British road transport market. This equates to 0.6% of the total arable area of the United Kingdom. However, HM Government does not have data on the land area of peatland used to produce crops for the biofuel market.