To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to his answer of 11 July, Official Report, column 646, if she will list the representations which her Department has received on retaining the aid and trade provisions and place a copy of each in the Library. [9476]

[holding answer 18 July 1997]: Nearly all the representations received since 1 June have been oral.The Department has also received written representations from the Export Group for the Constructional Industries and Major British Exporters. With the agreement of those organisations, I am placing copies of their letters in the Library of the House.