§ Miss LestorTo ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to her answer of 23 June,Official Report, column 276, whether any of the clarifications by which the Government made 531W clear to the Malaysian Government, on a number of occasions in 1988, that they were willing to consider Malaysian requests for aid were contained in correspondence which also related to the arms sales package, the memorandum of understanding of which was they were signed in 1988.
§ The Prime MinisterThe contents of Government-to-Government correspondence are confidential. As the hon. Member will be aware from the reply of my right hon. Friend the Minister for Overseas Development to her earlier question on 19 June at column18 we have been giving grant aid to Malaysia since well before negotiations on the defence sales package began.