§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will list the exports of products derived from North sea crude oil expressed as percentages of North sea crude production in each year since 1974.
§ Mr. GrayIt is not generally possible to attribute petroleum products to any particular source of crude oil as United Kingdom continental shelf—UKCS—and imported crude oils and feedstocks are processed together at United Kingdom refineries. Exports of petroleum products derived from this "mixed throughput" are shown in the following table together with the proportions of UKCS oil in the crude oil and feedstock throughput at refineries. This percentage gives no more than a broad indicator of the crude oil source for product exports.
in the Library of the House. The report recognises the competence of pneumoconiosis medical panels in carrying out their functions, and suggests no fundamental change in their role. The working party also recognised that the percentage of cases where there was disagreement between a panel and a coroner's pathologist was small. Whilst the working party accepted that there is little scope for reducing this percentage still further, it agreed that attempts to do so should none the less be made. The report outlines the various measures that have been considered.