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Export Promotion

Volume 984: debated on Tuesday 6 May 1980

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asked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will list the £16·5 million cuts in export promotion; and which industrialists, manufacturers' organisations and trade unions were (a) consulted and (b) gave consent to the proposals.

Details of the estimated total savings of £16·5 million which are to be made in the Government's export promotion services during the four-year period from 1980–81 to 1983–84 will be found in the table annexed to the " Action Document " on Sir Derek Rayner's report on these services that my right hon. Friend placed in the Library of the House on 30 April in reply to a question by my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow, Central (Mr. Grant). The changes in the export promotion services were made on the advice of the British Overseas Trade Board and after consultation with the British Overseas Trade Advisory Council. Both bodies include industrialists and trade unionists.