To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what proportion of UK gas demand will be met by imported natural gas in 2008. (233928)

[holding answer 6 November 2008]: Net UK import dependence of gas for the year to August 2008 (defined as total imports as a proportion of gas output from the National Transmission System) was 27 per cent. The Department's latest oil and gas production projections—available online at:

https://www.og.berr.gov.uk/mformation/bb_updates/chapters/Section4_17.htm

suggest 26 per cent. net gas import dependence for the UK in 2008 as a whole.