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Red Diesel: Storage

Asked by Sarah DykeLiberal DemocratDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled Answered 21 April 2026UIN 127562

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the number of days of supply of red diesel available based on storage levels and usage rates.

Answered by Martin McCluskey

Data on monthly red diesel stocks and demand are published in Energy Trends Tables 3.11 and 3.13, respectively: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/oil-and-oil-products-section-3-energy-trends.

The Department does not publish estimates of days consumption.

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