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Mr. Bowis
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will now list the projects so far approved from the know-how fund for Poland.
Mrs. Chalker
The information is as follows:
| Activities approved under the know-how fund for Poland as at 8 March 1990 | |
| Title: | Foreign Investment agency |
| Description: | Four seminars on corporate finance, and financial and management accounting |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £56,000 |
| Title: | Bank Handlowy |
| Description: | Two seminars on Treasury management and an introduction to capital markets |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £34,000 |
| Title: | Banking and finance sector mission |
| Description: | Project identification |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £10,000 |
| Title: | Finance and the City of London |
| Description: | Course in financial institutions for 20 Polish visitors |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £61,000 |
| Title: | Accountancy sector mission |
| Description: | Project identification |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £19,000 |
| Title: | Privatisation conference |
| Description: | Conference |
| Status: | Completed: |
| Cost: | £33,000 |
| Title: | Job Ownership |
| Description: | Study tour of United Kingdom employee-owned businesses |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £10,000 |
| Title: | Warszawskie Zaklady Telewizyjne (WZT) |
| Description: | Pilot consultancy on employee ownership |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £12,000 |
| Title: | Management Study tour |
| Description: | Directors of Polish management education schools to undertake two-week United Kingdom study tour |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £31,000 |
| Title: | Management seminars |
| Description: | Seminars on marketing and export promotion |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £20,000 |
| Title: | Young management graduates |
| Description: | Two month programme at British Institute of management plus attachments |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £222,000 |
| Title: | Management educators |
| Description: | Training of trainers at various institutions |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £251,000 |
| Title: | Visiting lecturers |
| Description: | Tours of Polish management schools by invited British specialists |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £56,000 |
| Title: | Fishery management |
| Description: | Three month programme at Hull for Polish fishery managers plus study tour by senior managers |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £133,000 |
| Title: | Farmer/Co-operatives training |
| Description: | Identification and implementation of training programme for managers of cooperatives |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £20,000 |
| Title: | English for management |
| Description: | Project identification |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £10,000 |
| Title: | Management libraries |
| Description: | Provision of management books and videos to key Polish educational institutions |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £125,000 |
| Title: | Industrial consultancy |
| Description: | Assessment of potential productivity improvements at three Polish plants and substantive work at FSO car manufacturing plant |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £75,000 |
| Title: | Financial seminars |
| Description: | Increasing awareness of how Western financial institutions and markets work |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £172,000 |
| Title: | Translation of key management texts |
| Description: | Two consultants to identify needs in relation to the translation and publication of selected texts and the potential establishment of a publishing house |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £10,820 |
| Title: | Electricity sector |
| Description: | Reconnaissance mission |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £10,000 |
| Title: | IBRD social security mission |
| Description: | Secondment of three United Kingdom experts to an IBRD mission to look at the social aspects of economic adjustment |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £39,000 |
| Title: | Blood plasma |
| Description: | Feasibility study for establishment of a blood fractionation plant |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £154,000 |
| Title: | Data Processing |
| Description: | Adaptation of Polish econometric model to meet IMF specifications |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £22,000 |
| Title: | Economic Adviser |
| Description: | Appointment of a macro-economic adviser to the Ministry of Finance |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £60,000 |
| Title: | Equipment for Ministry of Finance |
| Description: | Provision of office machinery |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £20,000 |
| Title: | Equipment for Ministry of Education |
| Description: | Provision of office machinery to the Task Force for co-ordination |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £20,000 |
| Title: | Coal industry training |
| Description: | Training in colliery management techniques |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £49,000 |
| Title: | Cracow tourism study |
| Description: | Recommendation of immediate measures to help Cracow cope with the coming tourist season, and development of longer-term proposals |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £37,000 |
| Title: | Agros dried vegetables |
| Description: | Recommendations for productivity improvements |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £55,000 |
| Title: | Company doctor training |
| Description: | Seven courses in training Polish consultants in techniques of company analysis |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £97,000 |
| Title: | Conference on demonopolisation |
| Description: | Discussion of methods and experiences of demonopolisation in relation to the process of economic and political decision taking |
| Status: | To be implemented |
| Cost: | £11,000 |
| Title: | Book industry training |
| Description: | Pilot project to assess the training needs of the Polish book industry |
| Status: | To be implemented |
| Cost: | £17,200 |
| Title: | Post-experience training for journalists |
| Description: | Four courses including academic and practical attachments |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £240,000 |
| Title: | Local government assistance |
| Description: | Project to combat environmental pollution involving Carlisle and Slupsk |
| Status: | To be implemented |
| Cost: | £30,000 |
| Title: | Seminars for Polish MPs |
| Description: | Introduction to British parliamentary concepts |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £15,000 |
| Title: | Media training |
| Description: | Seven courses organised by BBC World Service |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £225,000 |
| Title: | Establishment of capital markets |
| Description: | Familiarisation trip by Ministry of Finance officials to the London Stock Exchange |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £7,600 |
| Title: | AIDS training |
| Description: | Training for Polish doctors and nurses on how to handle AIDS patients |
| Status: | To be implemented |
| Cost: | £21,500 |
| Title: | Railway training |
| Description: | Attendance at signalling and telecommunications course for three railway engineers |
| Status: | To be implemented |
| Cost: | £15,800 |
| Title: | New banks mission |
| Description: | Technical assistance for the establishment of new banks |
| Status: | To be implemented |
| Cost: | £25,000 |
| Title: | Agricultural sector mission |
| Description: | Project identification |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £25,000 |
| Title: | Pharmaceutical sector |
| Description: | Mission to assess pharmacy training needs and joint venture possibilities |
| Status: | To be implemented |
| Cost: | £2,300 |
| Title: | Foreign trade training |
| Description: | Secondment from the Polish Chamber of Foreign Trade to the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce |
| Status: | To be implemented |
| Cost: | £2,200 |
| Title: | Scholarships programme |
| Description: | Non project-related training awards administered by the British Council |
| Status: | To be implemented |
| Cost: | £500,000 per year |
| Title: | Academic links programme |
| Description: | Finance to allow two-way exploratory visits between institutions which will be administered by the British Council |
| Status: | To be implemented |
| Cost: | £100,000 per year |
| Title: | IBRD banking mission |
| Description: | Secondment of two United Kingdom experts to an IBRD mission to look at project preparatory work in the banking sector |
| Status: | Completed |
| Cost: | £16,900 |
| Title: | Assistance to local government |
| Description: | Provision of equipment for the Foundation of Local Democracy centre in Lodz |
| Status: | To be implemented |
| Cost: | £20,000 |
| Title: | Research Programme |
| Description: | Assessment of the competitiveness of the industrial sector in Poland |
| Status: | To be implemented |
| Cost: | £27,000 |
| Title: | Privatisation and market research centre in |
| Gdansk | |
| Description: | Assistance to the Centre |
| Status: | To be implemented |
| Cost: | £38,000 |
| Title: | Legal training |
| Description: | Three month placements for 13 Polish lawyers with United Kingdom firms |
| Status: | To be implemented |
| Cost: | £40,000 |
| Title | Energy Audit |
| Description: | Detailed analysis of the Power and Brown Coal Board by a team of 12 United Kingdom utility personnel |
| Status: | To be implemented |
| Cost: | £403,000 |
| Title: | Economic Adviser |
| Description: | Appointment of a second Economic Adviser to the Ministry of Finance |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £7,000 |
| Title: | Financial Markets Adviser |
| Description: | Appointment of an Adviser to the Ministry of Finance |
| Status: | Underway |
| Cost: | £70,000 |
| Title: | Assistance to local government |
| Description: | Three courses for newly elected local government councillors and officials based at Leicester Polytechnic |
| Status: | To be implemented |
| Cost: | £190,000 |