HC Deb 03 May 1965 vol 711 cc107-8W
14. Mr. Bence

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many scientific advisers are attached to the British Embassies in Bulgaria, Rumania, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.

Mr. George Thomson

None. Our cultural attachés in Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Poland maintain contacts with scientific bodies in these countries.

15. Mr. Bence

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what steps he is taking to expand the work of commercial attachés in British Embassies in Bulgaria, Rumania, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.

Mr. George Thomson

The additional Government measures to increase exports which have been announced in recent months, and the publicity campaign to make official services better known to exporters, mean an increasing volume of work for the staffs of posts abroad, and the embassies in the countries mentioned will share in this.