§ Lord Aveburyasked Her Majesty's Government:
What consideration they have given to the recommendations by the Trade and Industry Select Committee of the House of Commons, in paragraph 22 of their 12th report of Session 2000–01 that Ministers must not only be even handed as between the Ilisu and Yusufeli projects, but must he seen to be even-handed; and why the government response to the report makes no reference to this recommendation. [HL2489]
§ The Minister for Trade (Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean)We will be even-handed in our treatment of Ilisu and Yusufeli.
We shall require the same level of satisfaction about the impacts of the Yusufeli dam as we do for all other applications for ECGD support. This means that support will be considered against ECGD's published business principles (which appear on ECGD's website: http://www.ecgd.gov.uk. The criteria for assessing 'the project impacts arising from cases on which ECGD is approached for cover can also be found on the webs] te, in the "Introduction to ECGD's Impact Screening and Analysis Procedures" in the "Impact Questionnaire".
The government reponses to the Trade and Industry Select Committee's 12th report specifically addressed the committee's recommendations as set out in the summary of conclusions and recommendations.