§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the President of the Board of Trade what records his Department compiles of the oil company names and the oil drilling rigs and platforms involved in oil spillages and discharges in United Kingdom licensed blocks in the(a) North sea and (b) North Atlantic. [9500]
§ Mr. PageOil spills and oily discharges from oil and gas installations on the United Kingdom continental shelf are reported on an installation by installation basis to my Department. This information is then compiled on an annual basis to provide the records contained in the "Energy Report", a copy of which is available in the Library of the House.
The reports prior to 1994 are held in a non-electronic form on file in chronological order, whilst those from 1994 are held electronically and can thus be more readily sorted to give information on a company or installation basis.