HC Deb 06 November 1997 vol 300 c295W
Mr. Lansley

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if she will list the areas of departmental business from which the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State has excluded himself as a result of previous financial interests. [12585]

Mr. Nigel Griffiths

Ministers in this Government will continue to make public statements about their involvement in specific cases where it is valuable for the conduct of a specific case.

I knew on being appointed a Minister that a small shareholding in the companies detailed below were likely to be released from my late father's estate during summer 1997. For that reason I have stood aside from consideration of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission's report on P and 0/Stena, and papers relating to the European Commission's investigation under the European Community Merger Regulation of the proposed acquisition by Dupont of certain ICI businesses.