HC Deb 13 June 1990 vol 174 cc213-4W
Dr. Woodcock

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the projects supported by the eastern Europe know-how fund to date.

Mrs. Chalker

I refer to the reply I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Mr. Bowis) on 14 March at column 236. The additional activities approved since then under the know-how fund are as follows:

Poland

  • Consultancy assistance in advising on inward investment applications to the Foreign Investment Agency—£100,000.
  • Four privatisation consultancies for the Privatisation Foundation—£1,600,000.
  • Secondment of an accountant and secretary to the Privatisation Foundation—£112,000.
  • Secondment of three expatriates to the Export Development Bank—£600,000.
  • Audit studies of nine commercial banks—£200,000.
  • Company doctor training for official and private sector participants—£350,000.
  • Advanced corporate finance training for commercial bank staff—£15,000.
  • Assistance with auditing standards and establishment of a professional body—£250,000.
  • Advice on accountancy standards to the Accountancy Association of Poland—£15,000.
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  • Provision of accountancy books to university libraries and management training institutions—£275,000
  • Four workshops for accountants with particular reference to joint ventures—£137,000.
  • Short-term industrial attachments with British companies in cooperation with the Confederation of British Industry—£270,000.
  • Secondment of an adviser on financial markets to the Ministry of Finance—£100,000.
  • Assistance to the Ministries of Industry and Finance for industrial restructuring—£300,000.
  • Four consultancies in the energy sector looking at the economic restructuring of the hard coal, oil and gas, lignite and electricity sectors, and a study on gas pricing —£1,600,000.
  • Management training for Polish railways—£150,000.

Hungary

  • Secondment of two staff to the State Property Agency—£350,000.
  • Management training course for the National Savings Bank—£55,000.
  • Small enterprise development project managed by B'nai B'rith—£150,000.
  • Short-term attachments by all 14 State Secretaries—£35,000.

Czechoslovakia

  • Follow-up visit by Czechoslovak employment officials—£8,000.
  • Seminar attended by Czechoslovak environmental officials—£13,000.
  • Health workshops for Civil Forum and the Ministry of Health —£13,000.
  • Study tour of Czechoslovak social security officials—£4,000.