Jim Cunningham – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-06-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of the proportion of UK energy consumption that was supplied by other countries in each of the last 10 years.
Andrea Leadsom
The UK’s net import dependency is published in DECC’s Energy Trends table 1.3, and is reproduced below:
|
Import dependence |
|
|
2006 |
21.3% |
|
2007 |
20.6% |
|
2008 |
26.3% |
|
2009 |
27.0% |
|
2010 |
28.6% |
|
2011 |
36.7% |
|
2012 |
43.1% |
|
2013 |
47.1% |
|
2014 |
46.2% |
|
2015 |
38.6% |
Source: DECC Energy Trends, March 2015
In 2015, the UK’s net imports of 79.5 million tonnes of oil equivalent accounted for 38.6% of the UK’s primary consumption of energy.
