BRITISH NATIONAL EXPORT COUNCIL

HL Deb 17 May 1971 vol 319 c5

LORD BROWN

had given Notice of the following Question:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the closing down of the British National Export Council and the recent postponement of sixty-one export missions are part of a policy of withdrawing from British Industry, government financed services to support export activities.

VISCOUNT CALDECOTE

My Lords, in the absence of the noble Lord, Lord Brown, is it in order for me to ask the Question standing in his name on the Order Paper?

SEVERAL NOBLE LORDS: No.