HC Deb 08 July 1988 vol 136 cc769-70W
Mr. Holt

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what percentage of the total United Kingdom petrol sales in each of the past five years has been of unleaded petrol.

Mr. Peter Morrison

Information on the sales of unleaded petrol prior to April 1987 is not available. From that date, sales of unleaded petrol represented 0.1 per cent. of the total United Kingdom petrol sales in 1987 and 0.3 per cent. in the first five months of 1988. Detailed figures are given in the table.

United Kingdom
Sales of unleaded petrol Total petrol sales Unleaded as percentage of total sales
000 tonnes 000 tonnes Per cent.
1987
2nd quarter 4.5 5,648.0 0.08
3rd quarter 6.6 5,764.6 0.11
4th quarter 7.1 5,733.8 0.12
1988
1st quarter 10.6 5,514.3 0.19
April and May 18.1 3,817.4 0.47

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