asked the Secretary of State for Energy what is the yield of light petroleum distillate in refineries in the United Kingdom, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy and Benelux.

The 1973 figures for light petroleum distillate—gas, gasoline, naphtha and kerosene—in millions of metric tonnes and as a percentage of total refinery yield are:

	million tonnes	per cent.
United Kingdom	32·3	30
France	32·6	24
Federal Republic of Germany	30·7	27
Italy	35·5	28
Benelux	28·9	27

NOTES:The percentage of light petroleum distillate in 1974 and 1975 may, with lower refinery utilisation, have increased.Figures were extracted from statistics published by the OECD.