HL Deb 26 February 2004 vol 658 cc73-4WA
Baroness Byford

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How much road fuel, by value and by quantity, was sold in financial year 2002–03, broken down between (a) leaded petrol; (b) unleaded petrol; (c) diesel; and (d) fuel from other sources. [HL1293]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry (Lord Sainsbury of Turville)

Figures for the quantity and value of road fuel demand in the financial year 2002–03 are presented in the table below:

Quantity (million tonnes) Value (£ billion)
Lead Replacement Petrol 0.4 0.4
Unleaded Petrol 19.7 20.1
DERV fuel 0.1 0.1
LPG 0.1 0.1

The Auto-Oil Directive banned the general sale of leaded petrol from 1 January 2000. Since then leaded petrol has been replaced by lead replacement petrol (LRP) which is lead-free.

Liquid petrol gas (LPG) is the only other road fuel and data have been sourced from HM Customs and Excise figures.

The DTI publishes demand and price information for petroleum products in the quarterly Energy Trends and Energy Prices publications. The most recent editions for December 2003 were published on 8 January 2004 and are available in the House of Lords Library. Table 3.5 of Energy Trends contains demand for key petroleum products including petrol and dery while Energy Prices table 4.1.1 contains details of key road fuel prices.

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