§ Mr. MichaelTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what new contracts and business opportunities in(a) the electronics sector, and (b) other sectors have arisen to date from the Minister of State's visit to the middle east in 1991.
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§ Mr. David HuntI refer the hon. Gentleman to the supplementary answer given by my right hon. Friend to my hon. Friend the Member for Clwyd, North-West (Sir A. Meyer) on 20 January 1992, at column 5. Direct commercial contacts were the responsibility of the companies which took part in the trade mission, or exhibited at the trade fair. None of the 12 companies taking part in the mission was from the electronics sector; although two of the Welsh companies represented at the Rebuild Kuwait trade fair were. Welsh Office stand at that fair made more than 230 contacts for the 26 companies which it represented; of those, 14 contacts were for companies in electronics sector. Details of these contacts have since been passed to the companies concerned.