§ Mr. Phillip Oppenheimasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if Her Majesty's Government will seek to make arrangements with the Government of Japan to enable British investors to buy shares in Nippon Telegraph and Telephone.
§ Mr. Channon[pursuant to the reply, 3 May 1985, c. 276]: Decisions about how NTT's assets should be sold are for the Japanese Government to take, by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on his recent visit to Tokyo made clear out interest in opening up the telecommunication sector to British investment and to British products and services.