HC Deb 18 October 1989 vol 158 cc147-8W
Mr. Tony Banks

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give details of the sale by tender by the Hong Kong authorities of confiscated items permitted for commercial trade under the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species; what items were sold; to whom they were sold; and what amount was raised in each case.

Mr. Maude

There has been no sale by tender of confiscated items permitted for commercial trade under CITES since February 1988. A sale by tender, planned for January 1989, was cancelled.

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