§ Lord Hyltonasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they intend to designate any freeports in Northern Ireland; if not, why not; and, if so, whether they are likely to overlap or be distinct from existing enterprise zones in Belfast and Londonderry.
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§ The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Lord Cockfield)Her Majesty's Government announced on 2nd February this year that a site at Belfast Airport would be among six locations to be designated as experimental free zones. The proposed zone does not overlap the existing Belfast enterprise zone.