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Coal Stocks

Volume 898: debated on Monday 20 October 1975

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asked the Secretary of State for Energy what are the present stocks of coal distributed and undistributed; and what were the comparable figures in 1974.

Details of stocks of coal in Great Britain are published regularly in Table 8 of Energy Trends, available in the Library of the House. The latest information, which will be published in the October issue of Energy Trends, is as follows:

Week endingDistributed *Thousand tons Undistributed
28th September 197415,1306,403
27th September 197520,1738,185
* Excluding stocks held in merchants' yards mainly for the domestic market, and stocks held by the industrial sector.