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Energy Council

Volume 180: debated on Wednesday 14 November 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will make a statement on the outcome of the European Community's Council of Energy Ministers on 29 October.

The Council took further steps to liberalise the Community's energy market. The directive on the transit of electricity, on which political agreement had been reached at the previous Energy Council earlier this year, was adopted. A broad agreement was reached by qualified majority on the parallel directive on gas transit, opening the way for a common position at a later date. Although the directives do not. go far towards liberalising the Community's energy markets, the United Kingdom has supported them as a step in that direction. The Council also agreed, subject to the opinion of the European Parliament, to the repeal of the 1975 directive controlling the use of gas in generating electricity. The United Kingdom has long sought the repeal of that outdated measure.The Council also discussed the current oil situation and concluded that world market supplies were adequate and that member states' stocks were high. It also agreed that the Commission's proposals to update existing contingency measures needed further study.The Commission introduced the proposed SAVE programme (specific actions for vigorous energy efficiency) which is intended to co-ordinate member states' own

Table 2
NHS Land and Property Sales—Receipts
£s rounded to nearest '000
1983–841984–851985–861986–871987–881988–891989–90
Clwyd
Cash Prices34111995383Nil6344
Constant Prices471157119463Sales6744
East Dyfed
Cash PricesNilNil286782959035
Constant PricesSalesSales357943399635
Gwent
Cash Prices22310820910867323141
Constant Prices30814226113177346141
Gwynedd
Cash Prices2631161,031Nil49918
Constant Prices3641201,246Sales52918
Mid Glamorgan
Cash Prices119156672737663145532
Constant Prices164205839891761155532
Pembroke
Cash Prices225NilNil43250144
Constant Prices333SalesSales49268144
Powys
Cash Prices5843237575343866
Constant Prices8057296696146966
South Glamorgan
Cash Prices184766067429165Nil
Constant Prices256277581492177Sales
West Glamorgan

energy efficiency programmes. The Council welcomed the initiative which is intended among other things to lead to action on energy efficiency labelling and minimum standards for electrical appliances. The initiative emphasises the need for market-based measures.

There was also on 29 October a joint Energy/ Environment Council. I refer my hon. Friend to the written reply given to my hon. Friend the Member for Swindon (Mr. Coombs) by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment on 31 October 1990, Official Report, columns 540–42.