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.
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
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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
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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.
