Coal: Mining

(asked on 22nd September 2020) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much and what proportion of coal in thousands of tonnes used in British industry in each of the last five years was mined in (a) the UK, (b) Russia and (c) Columbia.


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Kwasi Kwarteng
This question was answered on 25th September 2020

BEIS does not hold data linking the source of coal to its final use. Overall volumes are published in the Digest of UK Energy Statistics and Energy Trends.

The table below shows the volumes of coal imported from Russia, Columbia and produced by the UK and the total supply and demand for 2015 to 2019.

Thousand tonnes

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

Supply

37,600

18,022

14,422

11.922

7,971

Of which UK production

8,598

4,178

3,041

2,580

2,166

Of which net stock draw

+6,869

+5,374

+3,378

-169

+16

Of which net imports

22,133

8,470

8,003

9,510

5,789

Of which imports from Russia

8,380

2,433

3,883

4,695

2,421

Of which imports from Columbia

6,553

2,896

731

635

1,078

Demand

37,451

18,035

14,439

11,929

7,963

Of which final consumption by industry

2,073

1,963

1,732

1,581

1,426

Source: Digest of UK Energy Statistics 2020, table 2.4:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solid-fuels-and-derived-gases-chapter-2-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes

Energy Trends table 2.4:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solid-fuels-and-derived-gases-section-2-energy-trends

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