To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate his Department has made of carbon dioxide emissions from transport from 1997 to 2002; and if he will make a statement. [93824]
Carbon dioxide emissions from transport between 1997 and 2001 (including from domestic aviation) were estimated to be as follows:
| Million tonnes of carbon | ||
| By 'end user' | By 'source' | |
| 1997 | 39 | 36 |
| 1998 | 39 | 36 |
| 1999 | 39 | 36 |
| 2000 | 39 | 35 |
| 2001 | n/a | 34 |
'End user' figures include a share of the emissions from fuel processing industries and the combustion of fossil fuels at power stations, whereas the 'source' figures do not. The 1997 to 2000 figures are published in "Transport Statistics Great Britain, 2002 Edition" and are obtained from the National Environmental Technology Centre (NETCEN). Only 'source' figures are available for 2001 and these are provisional estimates derived from DTIs "Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics 20022. No estimates are available yet for 2002.