§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Energy how much of the £10 million research project, recently announced, into the more efficient use of coal will be spent in Wales.
§ Mr. EadieIt is not possible at this stage to give an estimate of the way expenditure on this project will be distributed.
The £10 million International Energy Agency project is to build and operate a facility to study the fluidised bed combustion of coal under pressure. The plant will be located at National Coal Board Grimethorpe Colliery in Yorkshire because existing facilities, including the ability of the colliery power station to take steam generated by the project, are especially favourable.
Project management is in the hands of an executive committee composed of a representative of each of the participating countries—the United Kingdom, United States of America and West Germany—and the committee will decide where orders for plant and equipment will be placed.