HC Deb 21 May 1969 vol 784 c92W
Mr. William Hamilton

asked the President of the Board of Trade why Her Majesty's Government have no officially sponsored stand at the Milan Trade Fair; and what steps he took to ensure that the posters exhibited by the Central Office of Information portrayed an accurate picture of modern Britain.

Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody

The International Samples Fair at Milan is a general fair at which some 250 British firms were represented. The Board of Trade supported an official information stand and a joint venture of the jewellery trade organised by the London Chamber of Commerce. The theme of the information stand showed in Milan, which has an air pollution problem, was how modern Britain was successfully tackling this problem.

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