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Mr. Coaker
To ask the President of the Board of Trade if she will list the level of coal imports into Britain for each of the last 10 years; and what percentage of these imports are used in British power stations. [9291]
Mr. Battle
Available information is as follows:
| Year | Coal imports into United Kingdom1 2 | Percentage of imports used in UK power stations3 4 |
| 1987 | 9,781 | — |
| 1988 | 11,685 | — |
| 1989 | 12,137 | — |
| 1990 | 14,783 | 29.5 |
| 1991 | 19,611 | 37.2 |
| 1992 | 20,339 | 37.9 |
| 1993 | 18,400 | 28.1 |
| 1994 | 15,088 | 24.4 |
| 1995 | 15,896 | 27.0 |
| 1996 | 17,799 | 39.0 |
| 1 The 1993 import figure includes an additional estimate for unrecorded trade. | ||
| 2 Source: HM Customs and Excise | ||
| 3 Sources: Data for Great Britain from April 1990 provided by Eastern Merchant Generation Ltd., National Power, PowerGen and Scottish Power. Data for Northern Ireland prior to March 1992 provided by Northern Ireland Electricity. Data for Northern Ireland from March 1992 provided NIGEN. | ||
| 4 This information was not collected before April 1990. | ||