asked the Secretary of State for Energy which recommendations of the IMEG report are being implemented by the Offshore Supplies Office; and which are not.

I will send the hon. Member a copy of the memorandum submitted last year by my Department to the Select Committee on Science and Technology during the course of its inquiry into sea-bed engineering. This memorandum, together with other memoranda submitted as evidence to the Select Committee, will be published in due course as HC 266.