§ Mr. Spearingasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1) if his Department is officially represented on the committee directing a conference called Infofair/Infoforum, sponsored by Brintex Conferences Limited, and what proportion of the delegates' fees of £24 per day is being paid to his Department for its services;
(2) if he will state the nature of any request he received to send a message to potential participants in the Infoforum Conference organised by Brintex Conferences Limited; and how many copies of his message to the Conference were supplied by his Department on departmental notepaper.
§ Mr. John DaviesThis conference follows an earlier one sponsored jointly by the then Ministry of Technology and the Thomson Organisation. I was repre-20W sented at planning meetings: but this would not justify any division of the conference fees with us. The message to the conference was requested and provided in the form of a letter, which was printed and distributed by the organisers without charge to public funds.