Fuel Exports and Imports

HC Deb 19 December 1989 vol 164 cc118-9W

Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will provide equivalent figures about fuel exports and imports to those given in the tables in his answer of 9 November,Official Report, columns 767–68, for 1989 up to the most recent date for which figures are available.

Mr. Wakeham

The equivalent information for fuel exports and imports for the 10 months to October 1989 following my previous answer on 9 November is as follows:

Table 1
Thousand tonnes
	Exports (fob)	Imports (cif)
1989	Coal	Oil	Coal	Gas (coal equivalent)	Oil
January to October	1,672	53,8131	9,594	12,410	48,969

Table 2
£ million at 1985 prices2
	Exports (fob)	Imports (cif)
1989	Coal	Oil	Coal	Gas	Oil
January to October	64	9,3061	510	933	7,851
1 Contains a small amount of natural gas exports.
2 Figures at 1985 constant prices have been derived by applying the unit value for exports in 1985 to the relevant volumes in 1988 and 1989. The figures for gas are estimated.