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Mills in Scotland consumed around one half (51%) of the 6.3 million green tonnes of softwood delivered to UK sawmills in 2015 (Table 2.12). A further 30% was consumed by mills in England, 10% in Wales and 8% in Northern Ireland.
| Year | England | Wales | Scotland | Northern Ireland |
UK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| thousand green tonnes | |||||
| 2006 | 1 603 | 757 | 2 430 | 686 | 5 476 |
| 2007 | 1 674 | 759 | 2 683 | 713 | 5 828 |
| 2008 | 1 533 | 599 | 2 415 | 560 | 5 107 |
| 2009 | 1 548 | 538 | 2 672 | 532 | 5 291 |
| 2010 | 1 694 | 583 | 2 913 | 528 | 5 719 |
| 2011 | 1 726 | 634 | 3 082 | 543 | 5 984 |
| 2012 | 1 821 | 654 | 3 195 | 528 | 6 198 |
| 2013 | 1 879 | 702 | 3 420 | 532 | 6 532 |
| 2014 | 1 982 | 711 | 3 661 | 530 | 6 884 |
| 2015 | 1 915 | 655 | 3 247 | 531 | 6 347 |
Source: Sawmill Survey
Data: Longer time series of the above table, and for mills in England by region, are available from the Data Downloads web page.