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Oil: Syria

Volume 491: debated on Tuesday 21 April 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what proportion of oil imported to the United Kingdom originated in Syria in each of the last five years. (266947)

The following table shows the proportion of UK imports of crude oil and finished petroleum products from Syria from 2003-07.

Percentage

Crude oil

Petroleum products

Overall

2003

0.2

0.1

0.1

2004

0.3

0.0

0.2

2005

1.4

0.2

0.9

2006

0.6

0.0

0.4

2007

1.0

0.0

0.6

Source:

International Energy Agency.