Electricity Import

HC Deb 19 February 1996 vol 272 c30W

Mr. Jack Thompson

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what was the effect upon the balance of payments of the import of electricity from France in(a) 1990–91, (b) 1991–92, (c) 1992–93, (d) 1993–94 and (e) 1994–95. [15650]

Mr. Page

The following information from the DTI's "Digest of UK Energy Statistics 1995", in practice relates to net imports from France:

Net imports of electricity, Overseas Trade Statistics basis
	£ million
1990	200
1991	343
1992	369
1993	426
1994	388

Source

"Digest of UK Energy Statistics 1995", Table 64.