§ Mr. SalmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when she intends to reply to the letter dated 28 October 2003 from the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan to the Minister for Farming, Food and Sustainable Energy, regarding his constituent, Mr. T. Curran of Portsoy. [149778]
§ Alun MichaelThe hon. Member's letter of 28 October was addressed to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.
The Department of Trade and Industry approached the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with a view to transferring the hon. Member's correspondence there. That Department then approached Defra.
389WThe subject raised by the hon. Member is not a matter for this Department and therefore a transfer did not take place. The hon. Member may wish to raise this issue with the Department to whom he originally wrote.