HC Deb 31 October 1990 vol 178 cc605-6W
61. Mr. Cunliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he next expects to meet his European counterparts to discuss the textile industry.

88. Mr. Nicholas Brown

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he next expects to meet his European counterparts to discuss the textile industry.

135. Mr. Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he next expects to meet his European counterparts to discuss the textile industry.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

I will be meeting my EC counterparts at the Industry Council on 26 November to discuss Commission proposals on industrial policy, covering all sectors. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has regular meetings with his counterparts to discuss trade matters, including the phasing-out of the multi-fibre arrangement, which are of interest to the textile industry.

129. Mr. O'Brien

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he last met representatives of the textile industry in west Yorkshire to discuss textile imports.

Mr. Sainsbury

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State met representatives of the United Kingdom textile industry on 29 October to discuss trade policy as it affects the industry in west Yorkshire on 22 August where this was one of the subjects discussed, and on 23 October I met a TUC delegation to discuss the MFA.