§ Ms. RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will seek an increase in the budget allowed to the Commission for the European year of elderly people.
§ Sir John CopeI have been asked to reply.
When the Budget Council met on 23 July, to establish its first reading draft budget for 1993, it agreed the figure of 3.5 million ecu for the programme for the elderly and the European year of older people and solidarity between generations, judging this to be appropriate provision for 1993.