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Red Diesel: Storage

Asked by Sarah DykeLiberal DemocratDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled Answered 21 April 2026UIN 127561

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the volume of red diesel held in storage in the UK.

Answered by Martin McCluskey

Data on oil stocks are published monthly in Energy Trends Table 3.11: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/oil-and-oil-products-section-3-energy-trends.

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