§ Mr. Higginsasked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will give a direction to the gas and electricity industries to discontinue advertising likely to increase the consumption of gas and electricity.
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Gas available to the British Gas Corporation (per cent) From … … … 1979 1982 United Kingdom Continental Shelf Southern basin … … … 69 56 Frigg … … … 11 12 Other Northern basin … … … 1 13 Manufactured gas (a) and colliery methane Imports: … … … 1 1 Frigg (Norwegian sector) … … … 17 18 Liquefied natural gas … … … 1 — TOTAL(b) … … … 100 100 (a) Town gas and substitute natural gas (b) About 4 per cent of the total available is used by the EGC or lost in distribution to customers.
§ Mr. Norman Lamont[pursuant to his reply, 29 February 1980]: No. This is a matter for the industries, though both stress in their advertising the need for energy conservation.