Current status: Answered by Jim Mather on 6 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the numbers of people in Scotland who are employed (a) directly and (b) via outsourcing on the two Government Pipeline and Storage System oil pipeline networks.
GovernmentPipelines and Storage System (GPSS) is reserved to the UK Government and run bythe Oil and Pipeline Agency. The function of this agency is to manage the GPSSon behalf of the Ministry of Defence (MoD)
Information onthe pipelines and storage system can be obtained from the Defence Fuels Groupat the MoD.
The Address is asfollows:
Defence Equipmentand Support
Defence FuelsGroup
Ministry ofDefence
West Moors
Wimborne
Dorset
BH21 6QS
United Kingdom.
Alternativelyinformation is available on the MoD website at www.mod.uk.