HC Deb 15 March 1985 vol 75 cc292-3W
Mr. Forth

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will now announce who will represent the United Kingdom at the world conference of the United Nations Decade for Women in Nairobi on 15 to 26 July.

Mr. Renton

The United Kingdom delegation will be led by my noble Friend Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The deputy leader will be Dame Anne Warburton DCVO, CMG, United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the office of the United Nations at Geneva. The delegation will also include my noble Friend Baroness Gardner of Parkes (United Kingdom Representative on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women), my noble Friend Baroness Platt of Writtle (Chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission), Mrs. Clark-Glass (Chairman of the Northern Ireland Equal Opportunities Commission), Mrs. Nancy Catchpole (Women's National Commission) and a small number of Government officials from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Home Office. Representatives from Dependent Territories will also be included.

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