Hydrocarbon Oil etc.

Part of Orders of the Day — Finance Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 July 1979.

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Photo of Mr David Stoddart Mr David Stoddart , Swindon 12:00, 4 July 1979

I am obliged to the hon. Gentleman for intervening in that way. It is a further condemnation of his own Government. It was he who told us that in France and Germany there is no shortage of petrol. Those countries do not have indigenous oil supplies. Yet here, we, under a Tory Government and with our own oil supplies, are apparently unable to meet the demand.