As my right hon. Friend said in his reply of 19 June to my hon. Friend the Member for Exeter (Mr. Hannam), the Government have given careful consideration to the report from the British Gas Corporation/Mobil study team about a gas-gathering system for the United Kingdom continental shelf. The Government consider it important that a gas-gathering system should be constructed as quickly as possible and my right hon. Friend has, therefore, invited British Gas, Mobil and BP, together with a financial adviser, to form an organising group to develop proposals for the pipeline.