§ Sir Dudley SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has any proposals to assist the USSR to overcome the current shortage of anti-cancer drugs.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe United Kingdom has not received any specific requests for unilateral aid from the USSR, but is participating in the programme of European Community humanitarian aid to the USSR agreed at the European Council in December 1990. This aid will include medical supplies and some 250 tonnes have been despatched. We do not have details of the contents of these consignments.