§ Mr. RathboneTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when next the Pompidou Group of Ministers is planning to meet; and what he will be discussing with them.
§ Mr. HurdThe next ministerial meeting will take place in London on 18 and 19 May. I hope it will give a powerful encouragement to efforts throughout Europe to pass legislation on the confiscation of drugs traffickers' assets and to establish a network of reciprocal agreements. We shall also be discussing AIDS and drug misuse, which is a major problem in a number of European countries, and the growing threat to Europe posed by cocaine.