§ 58. Mr. Roy Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list those organisations that have protested to him concerning his decision to contribute up to £7,000 towards the cost of the British Wild Life Organising Committee which is preparing a British exhibit at the World Hunting Exhibition to be held in Budapest.
§ Mr. Anthony RoyleThe Bradford Vegetarian Society, the National Organiser for the United Societies for the Welfare of all Living Creatures, the Chairman of the National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports Ltd., and a number of individual members of the League Against Cruel Sports Ltd. have written to my right hon. Friend the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary.
§ 59. Mr. Roy Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will arrange to provide suitable material for the Nature Conservancy at the World Hunting Exhibition in Budapest in order to give a representative view of British public opinion on the subject of blood sports.
§ Mr. Anthony RoyleThe British exhibit is being organised by a private body, the British Wildlife Organising Committee in consultation with the Nature Conservancy. Official assistance is limited to the financial provision described by my right hon. Friend the Minister of State in answer to Questions on 17th June and the loan of surplus display equipment referred to by my right hon. Friend the Minister for Trade in his answer on 15th June. Her Majesty's Government's assistance is all intended to help transport and mount the organising Committee's exhibit.—[Vol. 819, c. 77; Vol. 819 c. 130–1.]