§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the President of the Board of Trade what criteria he has used in his Department's monthly publication,Energy Trends, to exclude natural uranium, enriched uranium and plutonium from the table of imports and exports of fuels.
§ Mr. EggarThe exclusion of natural uranium, enriched uranium and plutonium from the data on imports and exports of fuels inEnergy Trends follows internationally accepted practices for the compilation of energy statistics. There are difficulties in compiling aggregate energy statistics that include nuclear fuels, including the technical problems associated with converting data to a common unit of measurement that can be compared with other fuels.