HC Deb 12 March 1999 vol 327 cc403-5W
Mr. Baker

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many unminuted pre-arranged meetings occurred between(a) himself, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) his officials and representatives of the biotechnological industry sector since 1 May 1998. [74838]

Mr. Battle

[holding answer 5 March 1999]: I and my officials are in regular contact with representatives of all those with an interest in biotechnology—including environmental groups, consumer groups and biotechnology companies. It is not normal practice of governments to give details of specific meetings with private individuals or companies.

Mr. Baker

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list the biotechnological companies which have placed staff(a) on secondment and (b) on placement within his Department since 1 May 1997. [74839]

Mr. Battle

[holding answer 5 March 1999]: Secondments and attachments are part of the Interchange Initiative which promotes the exchange of people and good practice between the Civil Service and other organisations. All sectors of the economy are involved: Voluntary, Education, Health, Public and Private.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Minister for Competition and Consumer Affairs to the hon. Member for Wantage (Mr. Jackson) on 11 February 1999, Official Report, columns 405–10. This refers to the list of companies which currently have staff on secondment in my department and the DTI directorate in which they have been placed. In addition, I attach a further list of those companies which have had staff on secondment to the department on or after 1 May 1997, which are no longer on the current list.

Management unit Company
BL 1 NatWest
BNSC National Remote Sensing Centre Ltd.
BNSC Matra Marconi Space UK Ltd.
CACP Herbert Smith
CB Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
Communications and Information NEL
Communications and Information ICL
Communications and Information NEL
Communications and Information Reuters Ltd.
Communications and Information Slaughter & May
Company Law and Investigations Robson Rhodes
Company Law and Investigations Littlejon Frazer
Company Law and Investigations The Bank of England
EED Amec Process & Energy Ltd.
EID Lockstair Ltd.
EID GEC Marconi Avionics
Engineering Industries Toyota
Engineering Industries Honda
Engineering Industries Mechadyne Ltd.
Engineering Industries BAA
Engineering Industries British Steel plc
Engineering Industries MITI
Export Promotion IMI plc
Export Promotion Ocean Group plc
Export Promotion Continental Tyre Group Ltd.
Export Promotion Reuters Ltd.
Export Promotion Elliott Pearce Limited
Export Promotion British Marine Equipment Council
Export Promotion Food Process Engineering (Scotland) Ltd.
Export Promotion Allied Domecq plc
Export Promotion HSBC Holdings plc
Export Promotion Midland Bank plc
Export Promotion The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Ltd.
Export Promotion Mayell & Co.
Export Promotion British Aerospace Defence Ltd.
Export Promotion Weybourne Financial Services Ltd.
Export Promotion International Knitwear
Export Promotion Smith Kline Beecham
Export Promotion Morlands (Glastonbury) Ltd.
Export Promotion Balfour Beatty Limited

Management unit Company
Export Promotion Business Link
Export Promotion British American Tobacco Co. Ltd.
Export Promotion AMEC Process and Energy Ltd.
Export Promotion Geoteam Wimpol Limited
Export Promotion York Synthetics Ltd.
Export Promotion Unilever International
Export Promotion AMW Associates
Export Promotion British Aerospace plc
Export Promotion BT plc
Export Promotion GEC Marconi Communications Ltd.
Export Promotion Sims Portex Limited
Export Promotion Glengarnock Garments Ltd.
Export Promotion GEC Marconi Avionics Ltd.
Export Promotion International Distributor Centre
Export Promotion Lanimer Knitwear Ltd.
Export Promotion Marks and Spencer plc
Export Promotion Meggitt plc
Export Promotion Drinks Marketing Consortium
Export Promotion The West India Committee
Export Promotion Delamore Associates Ltd.
Export Promotion ICI plc
Export Promotion River Don Castings Ltd.
Export Promotion Glaxo Wellcome Plc
Export Promotion Nat West Markets
Export Promotion Alan Paine Knitwear Ltd.
Export Promotion Reyrolle Projects Ltd.
Export Promotion Barclays Bank plc
Export Promotion CRL
Export Promotion Texaco Ltd.
Export Promotion Genesis Communications
Export Promotion John Swire & Sons Ltd.
Export Promotion Institute of Export
Export Promotion Hydro Technologies Ltd.
Export Promotion Turner & Newell plc
Export Promotion World Trade Development Limited
Export Promotion AEA Technology plc
Export Promotion Knight Piesold Limited
GO-SW Normalair-Garrett Limited
GO-SW (Plym) Westcountry Development Corporation Ltd.
I Arthur Andersen
IBB British Telecom plc
IBB British Embassy Tokyo
IEP Airsys ATM
Insurance Price Waterhouse
Insurance Coopers & Lybrand
Insurance PricewaterhouseCoopers
Insurance Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance plc
NI UKAEA
Nuclear Industries Rolls-Royce & Associates
Nuclear Industries Hunting Engineering Ltd.
Nuclear Industries BNFL
Nuclear Industries 2 BNFL
Nuclear Industries TU Nuclear Electric Ltd.
Oil & Gas 2 Mobil North Sea Limited
OSO Trafalgar John Brown Oil & Gas
OST ICI Chemicals & Polymers Ltd.
OST British Computer Society
PORT Burton Group (Local Enterprise Ltd.)
RD Robson Rhodes
REG A Hambros Bank Limited
REG A Royal Bank Leasing Limited
SMD Chesterton International plc
SMEP 3 Grant Thornton
SMEP 3 Lloyds TSB Group plc