§ Mr. Alan SimpsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what work has been undertaken by Government officials with the LOTIS Committee and the LOTIS Group on NGO objections to the liberalisation of trade in services. [15653]
§ Nigel GriffithsI have been asked to reply.
The LOTIS Committee of International Financial Services, London, an independent private sector body, earlier this year produced a public response to NGO concerns about liberalisation of trade in services and the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services. Government officials, in their capacity as invited observers, offered the Committee comments, as they have to other NGOs on their work on this and other issues.