asked the Minister for Energy if he will tabulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT the figures contained in his "Energy: Weekly Statistical Statement" published on 10th January, adding to them: deliveries of coal and oil to power stations ; use of oil and coal at power stations and comparable figures for the previous year ; and the amount of coal he estimates has been saved by the estimated savings ; and if he will continue to publish these figures in future reports.
The Energy Weekly Statistical Statement is issued as a Press release and it would not be appropriate to publish it regularly in the OFFICIAL REPORT. Copies will however, on release, be available in the Library.The figures given in the last statement together with data for a year earlier are shown in the table below.
| POWER STATIONS' CONSUMPTION AND RECEIPTS OF COAL AND OIL (million tons) | |||||||||
| Figures for 1972/73 are in brackets | |||||||||
29th September 1973
| 8th December 1973
| 15th December 1973
| 22nd December 1973
| 29th December 1973
| 5th January 1974
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Coal
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| Consumption | … | … | … | 1·4 | 2·0 | 1·9 | 1·6 | 0·9 | 1·2 |
| (1·3) | (1·7) | (1·6) | (1·6) | (1·3) | (1·5) | ||||
| Receipts | … | … | … | 1·4 | 1·2 | 1·2 | 1·2 | 0·4 | 0·5 |
| (1·5) | (1·6) | (1·6) | (1·5) | (0·7) | (1·9) | ||||
Oil
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| Consumption | … | … | … | 0·2 | 0·2 | 0·2 | 0·2 | 0·2 | 0·3 |
| (0·3) | (0·3) | (0·3) | (0·3) | (0·3) | (0·3) | ||||
| Receipts | … | … | … | 0·2 | 0·3 | 0·2 | 0·2 | 0·2 | 0·3 |
| (0·2) | (0·4) | (0·3) | (0·3) | (0·2) | (0·3) | ||||
I am making arrangements to publish some additional information in the Statistical Statement, but it is not possible to obtain all the information for which the hon. Member asks on the very up-to-date basis which is the chief purpose of the statement in its present form.