HC Deb 25 October 1993 vol 230 c434W
Mr. Ronnie Campbell

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what is his estimate of the total amount of coal available for opencasting in Northumberland and Durham.

Mr. Eggar

British Coal has informed me that, as at March 1993, total reserves of coal estimated to remain unworked in approved opencast sites in Northumberland, Durham and Tyne and Wear were 16,696 million tonnes.