HC Deb 22 November 2000 vol 357 c204W
Mr. Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish the evidence in support of his Department's statement that asthma inhalers intended for use in Iraq were found on sale in Lebanon. [139055]

Mr. Hain

Glaxo Wellcome have confirmed to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that about 15,000 Ventolin inhalers for the treatment of asthma, part of a shipment sent to Iraq under the UN "Oil for Food" programme earlier this year, were subsequently found on sale on the Lebanese blackmarket.

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