HC Deb 23 January 1996 vol 270 c145W
Mr. Wigley

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list for(a) each of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom and (b) the United Kingdom as a whole for each of the last available five years the total consumption in quantity and in value at constant prices of (i) oil and (ii) gas, indicating the proportion of the total in each case and the overall percentage change in each component over the period. [8787]

Mr. Page

Data for the United Kingdom as a whole are shown in the table:

UK Energy Consumption (1)
Oil Natural gas (2)
Quantity (thousand tonnes) Value (3) (£ million) Quantity (gigawatt hours) Value (3) (3 million)
1990 57,518 22,505 525,885 7,210
1991 57,741 21,845 561,088 7,700
1992 58,392 21,256 550,633 7,214
1993 59,496 22,631 562,960 6,855
1994 59,898 22,808 565,022 7,205

Percentage change in consumption
1990–94 +4.1 +1.3 +7.4 -0.,1

Notes:

1Consumption by final users (i.e. net of fuel industry own use and conversion, transmission and distribution losses, but includes conversion losses by final users).

2Including colliery methane.

3Adjusted for inflation to 1990 price levels using the GDP deflator.

Source:

Digest of UK Energy Statistics 1995, Tables 5,7 and 27 (HMSO).

Comprehensive information on a comparable basis for the constituent nations of the United Kingdom is not available.