§ Mr. CoakerTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if she will list the level of coal imports into Britain for each of the last 10 years; and what percentage of these imports are used in British power stations. [9291]
§ Mr. BattleAvailable information is as follows:
Year Coal imports into United Kingdom1 2 Percentage of imports used in UK power stations3 4 1987 9,781 — 1988 11,685 — 1989 12,137 — 1990 14,783 29.5 1991 19,611 37.2 1992 20,339 37.9 1993 18,400 28.1 1994 15,088 24.4 1995 15,896 27.0 1996 17,799 39.0 1 The 1993 import figure includes an additional estimate for unrecorded trade. 2 Source: HM Customs and Excise 3 Sources: Data for Great Britain from April 1990 provided by Eastern Merchant Generation Ltd., National Power, PowerGen and Scottish Power. Data for Northern Ireland prior to March 1992 provided by Northern Ireland Electricity. Data for Northern Ireland from March 1992 provided NIGEN. 4 This information was not collected before April 1990.