To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer of 18 October, Official Report, column 285, and his answer of 18 July, Official Report, columns 1200–01, concerning the Cardiff Bay Opera House Trust, if he will specify the nature of the potential conflict of interests problem resolved in September 1993. [39816]

The attention of Welsh Office officials was drawn to the fact that Grosvenor Waterside, a subsidiary of Associated British Ports, might become a member of the trust. It was agreed that the company should not be represented on the trust until such time as the terms of purchase of the land had been formally agreed.