§ Sir Bernard Braineasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will indicate in which other cities it is proposed to stage an overseas aid and development exhibition which opened in Birmingham on 19th February; and what further plans he has for publicising Great Britain's overseas aid programme.
§ Mr. WoodThe exhibition will be at Wythenshawe, Manchester, next week and London, Waterloo, from 22nd to 29th April. It will later go to Liverpool and Nottingham. Other sites are being sought for showing after that. This exhibition was prepared following a suggestion made by the last Select Committee on Overseas Aid.
Further plans include a film, which I hope will be available later this year; new pamphlets and other information materials, especially for use in schools and teacher training colleges; continuing support for the United Nations Second Development Decade Standing Conference—in which more than 70 national organisations have joined—and support for other voluntary groups, notably for a conference to be held in Oxford in September on Europe and the Third World.
My Department will continue its regular publications, which include the newspaper, fact sheets, and Press releases, and we shall go on trying to give informative answers to the large number of letters we receive.