§ Mr. KeyTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence which(a) ministers and (b) officials visited the DEXSA 1998 exhibition in South Africa. [62081]
§ Mr. George RobertsonNo British Ministers attended DEXSA 1998. Thirty-five UK based MOD staff attended: of these ten were British Army personnel demonstrating British equipment to prospective buyers174W and six were members of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) who supervised the DERA stand. A further 13 locally based staff also attended.