§ Lord Tebbitasked Her Majesty's Government:
Which companies, industries and issues the Minister for Competition and Consumer Affairs cannot handle due to possible conflicts of interest.
§ The Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry (Lord Simon of Highbury)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 particular case to do so.
As already announced, the Minister for Competition and Consumer Affairs has stood aside from consideration of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission's reports on P&O/Stena and on the travel trade, and papers relating to the European Commission's investigation under the European Community Merger Regulation of the proposed 24WA acquisition by Dupont of certain ICI bussinesses. Shares relating to these companies were owned by his late father, who died in a mountaineering accident.