Industrial Participation Programmes (South Africa)

HC Deb 28 October 2003 vol 412 cc175-6W

Mr. Simon Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many officials from her Department assisted in the negotiations with the(a) National Industrial Participation and (b) Defence Industrial Participation programmes with South Africa; what their role was in these negotiations; and what posts they held in her Department at the time of the negotiations. [134540]

Ms Hewitt

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him on 20 October 2003,Official Report, column 448W.