§ Dr. ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assistance has been afforded to(a) United Kingdom-based non-governmental organisations and (b) non-governmental organisations from abroad, by his Department's Overseas Development Administration, to assist their participation in the preparatory committee meetings for the United Nations conference on environment and development in June 1992.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe Government pay for a representative from UNEP-UK, which is co-ordinating the views of British non-governmental organisations on the UN conference on environment and development, to attend meetings of the preparatory committee. I am considering how we might assist NGOs from developing countries.