§ Mr. Formanasked the Secretary of State for Energy what would be the effect by 1980 and 1985, respectively, on the estimated annual demand for energy of a change of 1 per cent. a year in either direction, in the assumed rate of national economic expansion in terms of millions of tons of coal equivalent.
§ Dr. J. Dickson MabonThe effect of a change in the rate of national economic expansion on the primary demand for energy depends on how such a change is assumed to take place.
Based on certain assumptions about the composition of the change in GDP, it has been estimated that a change of 1 per cent. a year in the assumed rate of economic growth could result in a change in the primary demand for energy of the order of 20 million tons coal equivalent in 1980 and 40 million tons coal equivalent in 1985.