HC Deb 23 March 1994 vol 240 cc317-8W
Mr. Bayley

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how much financial assistance has been given by the Government to(a) the international cocoa gene bank in Trinidad, (b) by the CATIE cocoa gene bank in Costa Rica, (c) the international cocoa germplasm database at Reading, Berkshire and (d) the international cocoa quarantine station at Reading, Berkshire in each of the last five years.

Mr. Jack

MAFF has not provided financial assistance to any of those bodies. I refer the hon. Member, however, to the answer given on 21 March by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, at column26.