§ Mr. ChopeTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will place in the Library a copy of the W. S. Atkins reports on the year 2000 preparedness of the oil and gas industry. [83826]
§ Mr. WillsCopies of the Executive Summary of both reports were placed in the Library of the House in answer to a question by my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley, East and Mexborough (Mr. Ennis) on 21 April 1999,Official Report, columns 553–55 and made available to the public on the Internet. These Executive Summaries provide a clear and accurate synopsis of the full reports. To prepare meaningful and accurate assessments it was essential that the industry provided full and frank access to DTI's assessor WS Atkins but the detailed information presented in the full report is commercially sensitive and was made available to the Department on the basis that it would not be published.