§ Ms. QuinTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the progress of the COCOM talks on exports to eastern Europe.
§ Mr. Sainsbury[holding answer 2 May 1991]: Subject to the satisfactory resolution of some outstanding issues on telecommunications and computers during the next two weeks, discussions on a major revision of COCOM's industrial list, which commenced in autumn 1990, are scheduled to be concluded at a COCOM high-level meeting on 23 and 24 May 1991. The current industrial list, comprising 80 separate items, will then be reduced to a core list of 10 categories covering only the most strategic and sensitive goods and technologies.