Government Auctions

Mr. Marsden
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs where her Department publishes information about Government auctions which it arranges or to which it contributes in (a) Blackpool, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West; and when the next such auction will take place in each area.

Mr. Hoon
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has not arranged, or contributed to, any auctions or sales in Blackpool, Lancashire or the North West and has no plans to do so.