§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much financial or technical assistance given by his Department to eastern European countries has gone to aid the production or marketing of tobacco products.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydIt is Government policy not to support the tobacco industry under the aid programme. However, inadvertently, one manager from a Polish cigarette company's factory was attached to a United Kingdom company last year under a Foreign and Commonwealth Office—Overseas Development Administration know-how fund programme designed to increase management experience in Britain's market economy. This programme has brought more than 350 managers to the United Kingdom since 1990.