§ Mr. Ron Lewisasked the President of the Board of Trade, in view of the fact that Volkswagen of Germany and Simca of France are negotiating for co-operative car assembly plants in Yugoslavia, and that Fiat of Italy have a similar arrangement with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, if he will increase the effort by his Department to assist British firms to enter the Iron Curtain market.
§ Mr. JayMy Departments are already giving British manufacturers of motor vehicles and ancillary plant and equipment all the assistance we can in their efforts to sell to the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe, and we shall continue to do so.