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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 88608, tabled on 7 December 2021

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference page 43 of the Digest of UK Energy Statistics Annual Data for the UK, 2020, Chapters 1 to 7, published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 29 July 2021, where his Department published the study on domestic wood consumption referred to in Note 7 on page 43.

Answered on

15 December 2021

The study of domestic wood combustion can be found on our UK-AIR website, accessible through the following URL:

https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/library/reports?report_id=1014

This research allowed Defra to update estimates of the quantity of solid fuels burned in people’s homes and gardens in the UK. These estimates were then used to inform the Digest of UK Energy Statistics for the UK in 2020.