To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will make a statement on his meeting with the Major Energy Users Council as regards (a) the agenda, (b) the alternatives reviewed and (c) the outcome; and what assessment he has made of the impact of electricity prices in the next financial year on the large electricity consumers.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Mr. Hunter) on Thursday 13 February 1992, Official Report, column 588.