Coal and Cereals

HC Deb 04 November 1992 vol 213 cc314-5W

Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will publish a table showing the percentage increase in coal and cereal production since 1968 and in the amount imported and exported.

Mr. Needham

[holding answer 3 November 1992]: Figures for the production, imports and exports of coal and cereals in 1968 and 1991, and the percentage changes of each over the intervening period, were:

Million tonnes
	Coal	Cereal
	1968	1991	Per cent, change	1968–691	1991	Percent, change
Production	169.9	96.1	-43	13.1	22.6	+72
Imports	—	19.5	(+)	8.6	2.5	-71
Exports	2.7	1.7	-39	0.1	6.0	(+)

Percentage changes have been calculated from unrounded figures.

¹ Data on crop year basis, I July 1968 to 30 June 1969.

Sources:Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics; Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.