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Mr. Clapham
To ask the President of the Board of Trade what was the total United Kingdom coal production for the last complete year for which figures are available; and how much was (a) opencast coal and (b) deep-mined coal. [11986]
Mr. Battle
Coal production in the United Kingdom in 1996 is set out in the table.
| Thousand tones | |
| Total production1 | 50,197 |
| Of which: | |
| Deep-mined | 32,223 |
| Opencast | 16,315 |
| Note: | |
| 1 Total production for 1996 comprises deep-mined, opencast and other production. Other production of 1,658,000 tonnes is an estimate for slurry and so on recovered from dumps, ponds, rivers. | |
Source:
Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics.