§ Mr. David NicholsonTo ask the President of the Board of Trade whether his review of energy policy will address the consequences for long-term gas supplies and gas prices caused by purchasing policies of the regional electricity companies; and what representations he received on this aspect of policy during 1992.
§ Mr. EggarThe terms of reference of the Government's coal review were set out in the answer which the President of the Board of Trade gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney (Mr. Porter) on 26 October, at columns 522–23. Estimates of likely reserves of gas and the scale of gas-fired power generation in the United Kingdom are being considered in the context of the review, as are the relative costs of gas and coal-fired power generation.
Excluding evidence submitted to the coal review, by the end of November 1992, Ministers had received around 20 representations on these issues.