HC Deb 08 December 1992 vol 215 cc592-3W
Mr. Dalyell

To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will make a statement on his meeting with a parliamentary delegation from the Philippines on 2 December.

Mr. Newton

I received a delegation of parliamentarians from the Philippines at the request of the British group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The meeting, which lasted 40 minutes, focused almost exclusively on comparisons between our different parliamentary traditions. Speaker de Venecia, who led the delegation, thanked the United Kingdom Government for their assistance in the current discussions on debt rescheduling.