Speeches

Nicholas Soames – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2014-03-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the value of UK imports of (a) coal, (b) gas and (c) oil from Russia was in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Michael Fallon

The value of UK imports of coal, primary oil and petroleum products from Russia between 2008 and 2012 are shown in the following table:

£ Million

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

Coal

1,570

1,130

533

945

1,092

Primary oil

2,184

1,156

1,278

2,316

3,321

Petroleum products

1,091

770

1,186

1,805

1,819

There was no gas imported directly from Russia by the UK.