§ Mr. Edwin Wainwrightasked the Minister of Power if he will give the cost to public funds of the storage of crude oil over each of the past 10 years.
§ Mr. FreesonThe Department does not publish figures for the cost of crude oil storage. The net expenditure on oil storage and distribution, after allowing for appropriations-in-aid, was as follows:
£ 1958–59 7,667,908 1959–60 7,141,946 1960–61 1,877,451 1961–62 1,045,113 1962–63 485,262 1963–64 349,029 1964–65 372,810 1965–66 384,333 1966–67 903,693 1967–68 449,774