§ 25. Mr. Hooleyasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will now take over responsibility for maintaining law and order on North Sea oil rigs from the Chief Constable of Aberdeen.
§ Mr. Hugh D. BrownThese rigs are private property and the police function in relation to them is limited accordingly. My right hon. Friend has no plans to take it over. In relation to the co-ordination of Government measures necessary for the protection of rigs I would refer my hon. Friend to the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to my hon. Friend the Member for Huddersfield, East (Mr. Mallalieu) on 5th November.—[Vol. 880, c.112–13.]