asked the Secretary of State for Trade if the reference to the Oil Mop device, on page 123 of the Select Committee on Science and Technology report on the "Eleni V", was a reference to the device being developed by Oil Recovery International, of Christchurch, Dorset, or to a device being developed by an American company.

The reference is to "Oil-Mop" devices supplied and operated by OMI Ltd., a subsidiary of Oil Mop Inc. of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.