§ Mr. Brandon-BravoTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has any plans to extend the scope of his single market campaign to help business to prepare for the single European market.
§ Mr. LilleyAs part of the single market campaign my Department has in recent months emphasised the natural role of business support organisations, such as chambers of commerce and trade associations, in providing the detailed information and advice needed by the business community. I am encouraged by the growing role such organisations are playing in complementing my Department's continuing single market information service. But I have concluded that there is a need to help them further develop their single market services in the run-up to 1992.
I am therefore making available to business support organisations a package of measures to help them develop and improve their services on single market matters. The package includes financial assistance towards acquiring single market expertise, improving their delivery of single market services and access to my Department's single market database, Spearhead.