HC Deb 20 June 1990 vol 174 cc586-7W
35. Mr. Eadie

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what items were discussed at the European Community Consumer Affairs Council on 13 June.

96. Mr. Frank Field

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what items were discussed at the European Community Consumer Affairs Council on 13 June.

Mr. Forth

The following items were discussed: the package travel directive, the proposed general product safety directive, the system for the rapid exchange of information on consumer products, the European home and leisure accident surveillance system, and the Commission's three-year plan for consumer policy in the EEC.

102. Mr. Dunnachie

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he last met representatives of local authorities' trading standards officers to discuss consumer affairs.

95. Mr. Doran

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he last met representatives of the local authorities' trading standards officers to discuss consumer affairs.

46. Mrs. Dunwoody

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he last met representatives of the local authorities' trading standards officers to discuss consumer affairs.

Mr. Forth

I met representatives of local authority trading standards officers on three occasions in 1989 to discuss consumer matters and my officials have frequent meetings with trading standards officers.