§ Miss Richardsonasked the Minister for Overseas Development if he will consider providing the Socialist Republic of Vietnam with long-term credit in addition to the credit support provided to exporters by the Export Credits Guarantee Department.
§ Mr. PrenticeThe only possible long-term Government-to-Government credit which I can identify, apart from that which could be given by the Export Credits Guarantee Department, would be capital aid from my Ministry. As I said in reply to Questions by my hon. Friends the Members for Darlington (Mr. Fletcher) and Harlow (Mr. Newens) on 22nd March—[Vol. 908, c. 34]—I have received no requests from the Vietnamese authorities to provide major aid of this kind, and I have no present plans to provide it.