§ Mr. ParryTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will make a statement on the United Kingdom's trading relations with Cuba.
§ Mr. Ian Taylor[holding answer 16 December 1994]: Cuba is on the United Kingdom list of destinations for which export licence applications are subject to special licensing procedures. There are no United Kingdom restrictions on imports from Cuba which are not applied more generally against imports from all sources.
Subject to the above, the United Kingdom enjoys normal trading relations with Cuba, and the Government's policy is to encourage United Kingdom firms to exploit the growing civil market opportunities there.
I visited Cuba in September with a group of senior British business men to promote the development of trading relations, and initialled a bilateral investment promotion and protection agreement.