§ Mr. Loveridgeasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what proportion and what tonnage of oil supplies for the European Economic Community is routed round the Cape of Good Hope; by how much the figures have changed in the past five years; and by how much it is anticipated that they will alter in the next five years and the following five years.
§ Mr. HattersleyThe estimated quantity of crude oil imported by the nine members of the European Economic Community in 1975 and transported around the Cape of Good Hope is 316.6 million metric tons, representing 67–8 per cent. of total crude imports. These figures are provisional. In 1970 the figures, covering all the nine present member States, were 265–1 million tons and 51–2 per cent. respectively. I cannot predict how these figures may alter over the next 10 years.