§ 89. Mr. GregoryTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what his Department has been doing to encourage export diversification in the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries.
§ Mr. Chris PattenMany ACP states are adopting internationally agreed structural adjustment programmes which provide for improved incentives for exports, both traditional and new. We are supporting such programmes with our bilateral aid and our contributions through the International Development Association, the regional development banks and the European development fund. We support the Community's aid for export promotion by ACP and other development countries, and we fund our own agency in Britain (the Developing Countries Trade Agency) to do similar work directly.