HC Deb 25 October 1988 vol 139 cc133-4W
Mr. Menzies Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy, pursuant to his statement of 7 July,Official Report, columns 1191–98, whether the public inquiry he announced on the Piper Alpha platform disaster will review safety procedures for work in the North sea generally; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Parkinson

[pursuant to his reply, 14 July 1988, c. 365–66]: I have appointed Mr. Malcolm Ford, CBE, lately managing director of Britoil plc and Professor Frank Lees, professor of plant engineering at Loughborough university of technology to be assessors to assist Lord Cullen at the public inquiry into the Piper Alpha accident.