§ Commander Courtneyasked the Secretary of State for Industry, Trade and Regional Development if he will give a list of the firms to which his Department is giving assistance or support in respect of the British exhibitions to be held in Peking in June and November, 1964, sponsored by the British 29W Council for the Promotion of International Trade and the Sino-British Trade Council, respectively.
§ Mr. HeathThe Board of Trade is providing no financial assistance to individual exhibitors in either exhibition. As I explained in my Answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Louth (Sir C. Osborne) on 24th March, our Chargé d'Affaires in Peking has been instructed to give individual exhibitors at the June exhibition the support and help they need, but I have no record of which firms have sought his help. He will of course be prepared similarly to help exhibitors at the November exhibition.