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Coal: Prices

Volume 481: debated on Monday 27 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent estimate he has made of likely trends in the price of coal for domestic heating use in the next three years. (228125)

[holding answer 17 October 2008]: The Government have made no assessment of the price of coal for domestic heating use in the next three years. Coal is an internationally traded commodity and prices are set in international markets. Changes in globally traded coal prices will tend to feed into coal prices for domestic use.