HC Deb 25 June 1979 vol 969 cc47-8W
Mr. Carter-Jones

asked the Secretary of State for Energy, in view of the fact that the present allocation of aviation fuel is having an adverse effect on the fuel supplies and on the balance of payments, if he will make a statement.

Mr. Gray

Oil companies are allocating aviation fuel—avgas and avtur—in the same way as they are allocating other oil products, although in this case there are the added complications posed by international bunkering. In general, these arrangements are operating satisfactorily and airlines have been able to adjust without too many problems. We have no evidence that the allocation system is bearing, or has borne, more hardly on British airlines than on others.