§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will make a study of the relevance to the United Kingdom situation of the reductions made by the United States into research on alternative strategies and the concentration of resources on conventional energy and nuclear strategies.
§ Mr. John MooreIn many respects the pattern of development of alternative energies is peculiar to individual countries by reason of, for example, differing climatic conditions, and energy supply situations. The United Kingdom's alternative energy resource programme380W is now well established and is appropriate to our needs. The reductions proposed by the United States Administration on Government-funded research into some forms of alternative energy will have little or no direct effect on the United Kingdom situation.