Asked by: Stephen Kerr (Conservative - Stirling)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the available supply of UK-sourced virgin and waste wood that has been used for (a) wood panel manufacturing, (b) sawmill products, (c) paper manufacturing and (d) wood fuel in each of the last five years.
Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This data is published in Forestry Statistics 2018.
Table 1 | Inputs to Wood-based Panel Mills, 2013-2017 | ||||
thousand green tonnes | |||||
Year | UK roundwood1 | Sawmill products | Imports2 | Recycled wood fibre3,4 | Total |
2013 | 1,263 | 1,709 | 0 | 853 | 3,825 |
2014 | 1,283 | 1,809 | 0 | 812 | 3,904 |
2015 | 1,334 | 1,687 | 17 | 852 | 3,890 |
2016 | 1,248 | 1,749 | 39 | 838 | 3,874 |
2017 | 1,059 | 1,726 | 22 | 923 | 3,730 |
Source: Forestry Statistics 2018 (Forestry Commission, September 2018),
based on data from: Wood Panel Industries Federation
Notes:
Table 2 | Inputs to Wood-based Panel Mills, 2013-2017 | ||||
thousand green tonnes | |||||
Year | UK roundwood1 | Sawmill products | Imports2 | Recycled wood fibre3,4 | Total |
2013 | 1,263 | 1,709 | 0 | 853 | 3,825 |
2014 | 1,283 | 1,809 | 0 | 812 | 3,904 |
2015 | 1,334 | 1,687 | 17 | 852 | 3,890 |
2016 | 1,248 | 1,749 | 39 | 838 | 3,874 |
2017 | 1,059 | 1,726 | 22 | 923 | 3,730 |
Source: Forestry Statistics 2018 (Forestry Commission, September 2018), |
based on data from: Wood Panel Industries Federation |
Notes:
Table 3 Inputs for the integrated pulp & paper mills1, 2013-2017 | ||||
thousand green tonnes | ||||
Year | UK roundwood2 | Sawmill products | Total | |
2013 | 465 | 83 | 548 | |
2014 | 465 | 97 | 562 | |
2015 | 435 | 101 | 536 | |
2016 | 423 | 82 | 505 | |
2017 | 442 | 61 | 503 | |
Source: Forestry Statistics 2018 (Forestry Commission, September 2018), | ||||
based on data from: UK Forest Products Association |
Notes:
Table 4 | Inputs for woodfuel1, 2013-2017 | |||
Thousand green tonnes | ||||
Year | UK roundwood1,2 | Sawmill products3 | Recycled wood4,5,6 | Total |
2013 | 1,650 | 302 | 830 | 2,782 |
2014 | 1,900 | 439 | 1,340 | 3,679 |
2015 | 2,000 | 534 | 1,450 | 3,984 |
2016 | 1,950 | 624 | 1,550 | 4,124 |
2017 | 2,200 | 705 | 1,660 | 4,565 |
Source: Forestry Statistics 2018 (Forestry Commission, September 2018),
based on data from: industry surveys, industry associations, Wood Recyclers Association.
Notes:
Asked by: Susan Elan Jones (Labour - Clwyd South)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effect of Government subsidies for the generation of biomass power using domestic wood feed stocks on the UK's wood panel industry; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Lord Barker of Battle
At the request of the wood panel industry, the Department carried out an analysis of domestic wood use by biomass generating stations, both through their returns on actual use under the sustainability reporting requirements of the renewables obligation and through the forecasts large scale generators provided to the Department as part of a voluntary exercise. Generators provided information on the amount of domestic and imported woody biomass that is likely to be used for electricity generation up to 2017. We published the aggregated results of last years' analysis at:
These data support the Department's initial estimates of the amount of UK biomass that is expected to be used for electricity generation up to 2017 (of between 2.5 and 3.5 million oven dried tonnes (modt)). Use of UK biomass for electricity has remained stable over the 2009-12 period at between 2.3 and 2.5 modt (of which between 1.3 and 1.6 modt was wood).
We intend to repeat this exercise this year.