HC Deb 01 March 1962 vol 654 cc177-8W
Mr. Skeet

asked the Minister of Power, in view of the negotiations for the United Kingdom's entry into the Common Market, if he will take steps to ascertain official prices for fuel oil in the several members of the Common Market and the average rebated prices in each territory to large industrial consumers.

Mr. George

Some information about oil companies' prices in Europe for minimum bulk loads of fuel oil is published in the trade Press here and in Europe, but I understand that particulars of rebates are not generally collected or published.

Mr. Skeet

asked the Minister of Power, in view of the negotiations for the United Kingdom's entry into the Common Market, if he will take steps to ascertain as a percentage the fuel oil yield of British, West German, French and Italian refineries at a date for which the latest figures are available and the projected yields so far as these are ascertainable for 1965.

Mr. George

The information for past years is in the 1960 edition ofBasic Statistics of Energy published by the Organisation for European Co-operational Development last November. I do not know of any forward projections.

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