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Natural Gas

Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent estimate he has made of the number of households in each (a) Government Office region, (b) local authority area and (c) parliamentary constituency which are not connected to the gas grid. [255855]

Mr. Mike O'Brien: As part of its regional and local energy statistics publication programme, DECC has published the number of domestic gas meter points in each local authority in Great Britain. This information has been placed in the Libraries of the House. Corresponding data are not available for Northern Ireland.

The Government do not hold this information at parliamentary constituency level.

Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what volume of gas was (a) exported from and (b) imported into the UK through each international gas pipeline in each month of the last five years. [256916]

Mr. Mike O'Brien: UK exports and imports of natural gas by month by pipeline from January 2004 to November 2008 (the latest month for which all data are available) are shown in the following tables.


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Exports
Million cubic metres

To Belgium( 1) To Ireland( 2) To the Netherlands( 3)

2004

January

0

280

24

February

0

282

26

March

96

331

24

April

621

312

23

May

1,121

304

27

June

1,346

268

22

July

1,507

274

22

August

749

278

24

September

71

289

10

October

0

337

17

November

0

310

22

December

0

293

22

2005

January

0

277

20

February

0

285

11

March

175

295

50

April

463

316

41

May

686

322

38

June

681

277

34

July

256

208

38

August

81

334

32

September

792

332

17

October

222

301

38

November

14

297

35

December

0

338

35

2006

January

0

330

35

February

0

311

32

March

0

371

33

April

360

382

26

May

936

392

24

June

577

368

27

July

833

341

27

August

609

358

16

September

1,140

349

5

October

840

344

26

November

136

384

29

December

71

390

29

2007

January

73

417

30

February

97

405

25

March

391

421

26

April

1,037

348

31

May

918

325

30

June

252

360

35

July

754

378

63

August

274

370

81

September

165

377

23

October

527

399

84

November

143

442

87

December

66

414

87

2008

January

12

427

99

February

31

438

55

March

23

467

68

April

41

437

86

May

444

417

108

June

527

363

96

July

555

390

79

August

566

382

75

September

374

372

28

October

998

411

60

November

428

438

59

(1) Via the Bacton-Zeebrugge interconnector.
(2) Via the UK-Irish gas interconnector.
(3) Direct exports from UK (or UK share) gas fields using the Dutch offshore pipeline infrastructure.

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