Speeches

Jim Cunningham – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-06-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of the cost of energy imports by the UK in each of the last five years.

Andrea Leadsom

The Office for National Statistics publishes estimates of the value of trade according to internationally agreed classifications (SITC), with category 3 comprising most energy products (coal, crude oil, oil products, gas and electricity). This data is republished by DECC in table G7 of DUKES, and shows estimates of the value of energy trade. The table is reproduced below:

£billion

Year

Imports

Exports

Net imports

2011

61.8

42.7

19.1

2012

65.3

43.7

21.6

2013

61.5

42.7

18.7

2014

53.0

36.0

17.0

2015

37.9

24.0

13.9