§ Dr. Marshallasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many tons coal equivalent of coal, oil, nuclear fuel and natural gas, respectively, were imported to, and were exported from, the United Kingdom during each of the years 1967 to 1971.
§ Mr. EmeryImports and exports in original units of measurement in 1971410W are shown in the following table. Comparable figures for the years 1967–70 are published as indicated in the footnotes, in the Digest of Energy Statistics 1971, a copy of which is held in the Library of the House.
Imports Exports Coal (thousand tons) 4,174 (a) 2,652 (b) Crude and partly refined petroleum (thousand tons) (c) 107,965 1,746 Petroleum products (thousand tons) (c) 19,778 16,292 Natural gas (million therms) 332 (d) — (a) 78 thousand tons in 1970. There were no imports in the years 1967–1969. (b) Table 119. (c) Table 121 (Cols. 1 and 22). (d) Table 53 (Col. 4). The coal figures require no conversion to coal equivalent. Coal equivalent is not an appropriate measure of petroleum imports and exports because they include non-energy products which cannot be separately identified. Statistics are not available of imports and exports of nuclear fuels.
The approximate coal equivalents of imports of natural gas were:
Million tons coal equivalent 1967 0.9 1968 1.1 1969 1.2 1970 0.9 1971 0.9 There were no exports of natural gas during the years 1967–71.