§ Mr. LansleyTo 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 GriffithsMinisters 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.