HC Deb 10 March 1980 vol 980 cc414-5W
20. Mr. Hooley

asked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will give figures of Government expenditure on energy conservation measures for each of the member States of the EEC for 1979, or the nearest convenient 12 month period.

Mr. John Moore

The latest (1978) figures are in "The Third Report on the Community's Programme for Energy Saving" which was debated in the House last October. I consider such international league tables based on budgetary expenditure singularly misleading; a simple comparison of expenditure is by no means a measure of effectiveness.