§ Mr. Mike O'BrienTo ask the President of the Board of Trade what is the current amount of coal produced from opencast mining in tonnes and as a percentage of current coal production.
§ Mr. Eggar[holding answer 19 November 1992]: Total production of opencast coal in 1991–92 from British Coal Opencast and licensed private sector producers was 19 million tonnes, 21 per cent. of the total United Kingdom coal production.