BP said more than 30,000m of boom had so far been assigned to contain the spill, with an additional 87,000m available and 97,000m on order.
The demand typically far outstrips the total supply of visas, limited to 65,000 a year, with an additional 20,000 available for those with advanced degrees from American universities.
By 2004 the government says it will be making an additional £1.4bn available annually in England for "improvements in service delivery".
Fellows receive up to £130,000 (US$168,300) over two years to cover salary, research expenses and visa costs, with an additional £20,000 available for equipment purchases.
The number of new H-1B visas that can be issued each year is capped at 65,000, with an additional 20,000 available to workers with a master's degree or higher.
This is because while the Home Office says it has "substantially increased" the levels of funding to care for unaccompanied children – with an additional £60,000 available for each region, according to a spokesperson – council leaders insist that the funding on offer meets barely 50% of the cost of looking after a child who has arrived in the country alone.
The remaining 15 recommendations are mainly answered by referring either to existing projects ("Since February 2012 the Department for Transport has made an additional £159m available for cycling infrastructure") or pushing responsibility elsewhere ("The Department for Transport expects local authorities to up their game in delivering infrastructure that takes cycling into account").
"BBC Scotland must have control over a much more representative share of the licence fee collected in Scotland, which could see an additional £100m available for production in Scotland, supporting an estimated 1,500 jobs and contributing around £60m to the Scottish economy," she said.
"Even with the additional £200m available in England, it is still less than what we spend per head in Wales".
increase by 7% the level of initial pre-financing available for cohesion policy programmes (this could make an additional €1 billion available).
