Speeches

Alex Cunningham – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alex Cunningham on 2016-10-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much coal the UK carbon fibre industry used in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.

Jesse Norman

The table below gives the amount of coal used for non-power generating purposes:

UK coal demand for non-electricity generating purposes(1) (thousand tonnes)

2006

10,156

2007

10,158

2008

10,577

2009

9,037

2010

9,827

2011

9,658

2012

9,141

2013

10,139

2014

10,021

2015

8,174

Source: Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) table 2.4 available at

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solid-fuels-and-derived-gases-chapter-2-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes

BEIS does not hold data at that level. BEIS cannot disaggregate coal used by the carbon fibre industry from coal used by all industries.