§ Lord Jenkins of Putneyasked Her Majesty's Government:
What measures they have taken in fulfilment of their Scientific, Educational and Cultural Agreement with the USSR of April 1981.
§ The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Lord Carrington)The biennial British/ Soviet Cultural Agreement regulates exchanges between people in the educational, scientific and cultural fields. It contains both facilitating clauses and others of a more specific nature dealing with the routine exchanges, activities and events which the two sides have agreed should take place. The British Government, through their agent the British Council, are fulfilling these obligations.