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Mr. Hoyle
asked the Secretary of State for Energy whether there is freedom to charge a different price for North Sea oil in the EEC from the United Kingdom price for this oil.
Mr. John Smith
There are provisions in the Treaty of Rome against price discrimination. It is, in any case, the Government's intention that North Sea oil should be disposed of at market prices.