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Mr. Hoyle

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many meetings Ministers have had with the Institute of Directors in each of the last five years. [10092]

Ms Hewitt

Since 2 May 1997 DTI Ministers have had formal meetings with representatives from the Institute of Directors on the following number of occasions:

Year Number of occasions
1997 5
1998 4
1999 4
2000 7
2001 3

In addition, in the normal course of Government business DTI Ministers will have had more informal contact with representatives from the Institute of Directors on other occasions.

Mr. Hoyle

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many meetings Ministers have held with the Institute of Management in each of the last five years. [10093]

Ms Hewitt

Since 2 May 1997 DTI Ministers have had formal meetings with representatives from the Institute of Management on the following occasions.

Year Number of occasions
2000 3
2001 1

In addition, in the normal course of Government business DTI Ministers will have had more informal contact with representatives from the Institute of Management on other occasions.

Capacity of coal stations owned by major power producers1 in the UK in DNC2 terms
MW
End month Coal fired Oil fired Mixed or

dual fired3

 Gas fired

(CCGT)4

 Gas turbines

and oil engines
March 1990 34,583 12,847 5,434 — 3,356
March 1991 34,298 11,895 5,172 — 3,130
March 1992 32,686 10,817 4,806 229 2,968
March 1993 30,523 8,556 5,781 1,129 2,539
March 1994 29,132 6.317 5,694 5,463 2,248
March 1995 27,774 5,145 5,534 8,364 1,895
March 1996 27,494 5,214 5,534 9,034 1,890
December 19965 25,976 3,989 8,445 12,052 1,721
December 1997 25,976 4,069 7,530 12,252 1,526
December 1998 25,324 2,829 6,928 14,638 1.492
December 1999 25,581 2,829 7,017 16,110 1,333
December 2000 24,835 3,514 6,872 19,349 1,243
1 Companies whose prime purpose is the generation of electricity. The total fossil fuel capacity of other generators was 3,284 MW in March 1990 rising to 5,358 MW in December 2000.
2 Declared net capability.
3 Mixed or dual fired covers stations that can be fuelled by more than one fuel either as alternatives or simultaneously. So as not to disclose information provided in confidence about individual stations, this category also includes gas fired stations that are not combined cycle gas turbine stations.
4 Combined cycle gas turbine stations.
5 In 1996 a change was made to measure capacity at the end of the calendar year rather than at the end of March.

Source:

Digest of UK Energy Statistics 2001 Table 5.7 and the corresponding tables for earlier years.

Mr. Stunell

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what has been the total amount of electricity generated from fossil fuel sources(a) in total and (b) for each fossil fuel type, in the UK in each year since 1990. [13288]

Ms Hewitt

The available information is as follows:

GWh
Electricity

supplied

from coal

 Electricity

supplied

from oil

 Electricity

supplied

from gas

 Total electricity

supplied from

fossil fuels
19901 n/a n/a n/a 246,114
19911 n/a n/a n/a 245,368
19921 n/a n/a n/a 236,034
1993 170,276 20,038 32,930 223,244
1994 161,739 14,075 49,526 225,340
1995 157,240 12,480 63,323 233,043
1996 146,856 13,677 82,959 243,492
1997 119,627 7,854 109,515 236,996