§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for Energy what are the assumptions upon which the Government estimated that North Sea oil revenues would reach £3.5 billion in 1983–84.
410Wfigures are collated from returns supplied by the offshore operating companies under a voluntary arrangement agreed with the United Kingdom Offshore Operators Association (UKOOA). An analysis by broad industrial category is as follows:-
§ Sir Geoffrey HoweI have been asked to reply.
I have nothing to add to my reply to the hon. Member for Batley and Morley (Mr. Woolmer) of 14 April.—[Vol. 982, c. 513.]