§ Mrs. RocheTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will make it his policy to institute a national database of British exporters. [31910]
§ Mr. NelsonThe Government have no plans to provide a national database of exporters. This kind of professional information gathering is best left to the private sector and the UK already leads the world with a number of companies producing excellent commercial database. My Department is currently looking at ways of helping the private sector to set up trade directions on the Internet.