HC Deb 19 March 1991 vol 188 cc51-2W
Dr. Kim Howells

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what estimates were made, in preparing for privatisation of the electricity generating companies, of the average costs per tonne or equivalent (a) of transporting coal (i) by road and (ii) by rail from ports to power stations, (b) by tranche of coal supplied by British Coal to power stations, (c) of heavy fuel oil supplied to power stations, (d) of orimulsion supplied to power stations and (e) of imported coal by country of origin.

Mr. Heathcoat-Amory

Fuel procurement is a commercial matter for the companies concerned. All material information relating to the companies is included in the prospectus, a copy of which is in the Library of the House.