HC Deb 30 January 2001 vol 362 cc121-2W
Mr. Chaytor

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the UK(a) consumption of coal and (b) extra tonnes of carbon dioxide burned between August and October was in (i) 1999 and (ii) 2000. [147815]

Mr. Hain

[holding answer 29 January 2001]: DTI provisional estimates of extra tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions arising from coal consumption between August and October in 1999 and in 2000 are:

1999 2000
Coal consumed (million tonnes) 13.0 14.5
Carbon dioxide emissions arising from coal consumption (million tonnes of carbon) 8.3 9.3

It is therefore estimated that an extra 1.0 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in terms of carbon attributable to coal consumption were emitted between these periods due to an increase of about 3 million tonnes in the amount of coal consumed in the UK in 2000 compared with 1999.