According to the Sunday Times, Mr Straw wrote to his Scottish counterpart Kenny MacAskill on 19 December 2007, six weeks before an oil exploration contract for BP in Libya was ratified.

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The subject of offshoring food production, through large-scale contract farming arrangements between richer and poorer nations, is another topic awaiting further exploration.

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Luna does contract research and development, plumbing the possibilities in fields such as bomb detection and satellite oil exploration.

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