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Mr. George Grant
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.
Mr. Eadie
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 ending | Distributed * | Thousand tons Undistributed |
28th September 1974 | 15,130 | 6,403 |
27th September 1975 | 20,173 | 8,185 |
* Excluding stocks held in merchants' yards mainly for the domestic market, and stocks held by the industrial sector. |