asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will take action to promote European collaboration in ocean technology at an industrial level.

This is among the matters that fall to be considered by an EEC sub-group on oceanology, which is expected to report in due course to the EEC Committee on Scientific and Technical Research (CREST).

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT details of information available to him from international sources regarding the percentage change in import prices of wheat, copper, zinc, tin and wool, respectively, entering the German Federal Republic and Japan, respectively, between June 1972 and December 1973.

The following increases have been calculated from information on import prices published respectively, by the German Federal Statistical Office and the Bank of Japan. The latest information available for Germany is November 1973.