HC Deb 21 July 1980 vol 989 cc33-4W
14. Mr. Viggers

asked the Secretary of State for Energy what is the extent to which the Government's expectations of natural gas usage in the United Kingdom take account of gas from the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

Mr. Gray

The British Gas Corporation currently has under contract 5 trillion cubic feet of gas from the Norwegian sector of the continental shelf. My Department's estimates of the total amount of natural gas likely to be available to this country include an allowance for some additional imports from Norway or elsewhere.