§ Mr. Richard Pageasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps have been taken by the British Embassy in Paris to help United Kingdom manufacturers of medical equipment and aids for the handicapped to sell their products.
§ Mr. RifkindThe embassy at Paris has been active in support of a task force on medical equipment and aids for the handicapped which was launched in October 1983 by the European trade committee, an area advisory group of the British Overseas Trade Board.
The embassy was involved in the organisation of an inward trade mission in March 1984, when representatives of five French health care organisations visited the United Kingdom for five days. In November, a presentation of medical equipment and aids for the handicapped manufactured by 10 British firms was mounted at the Paris residence of Her Majesty's ambassador. The British Health-Care Export Council and the participating firms consider the presentation to have been an outstanding success.