HC Deb 18 March 1976 vol 907 cc622-3W
Mr. Bean

asked the Secretary of State for Trade whether he can now make a report on the operation to combat oil pollution in the Dover Strait last November following the collision between HMS "Achilles" and the tanker "Olympic Alliance"; and whether he will give an account of the arrangements for dealing with such incidents.

Mr. Clinton Davis

The operation and lessons learned have been fully studied by all concerned and copies of a report, as made to the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organisation, have been placed in the Vote Office and Printed Paper Office and also in the Library of each House, together with an up-to-date account of the United Kingdom arrangements for preventing and combating oil pollution at sea.

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