HC Deb 01 December 1989 vol 162 c447W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what has been the output of gas being flared off by the energy industry for the last year for which he has figures.

Mr. Peter Morrison

My Department has responsibility for controlling and monitoring gas flared from producing oilfields in the United Kingdom continental shelf.

Details of the amounts of gas flared are published in my Department's annual report to Parliament (the Brown Book).