asked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will make explicit the assumptions on which his predictions that the United Kingdom will consume 100 million tons of oil in 1980 are based.

The Department of Energy's memorandum on conservation, given in evidence to the Select Committee on Science and Technology—the Sub-Committee on Energy Resources—sets out the assumptions on which the prediction that the United Kingdom will consume 100 million tons of oil in 1980 is based.