Kuwait

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 16 October 1991.

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Photo of Peter Lilley Peter Lilley Secretary of State for Trade 12:00, 16 October 1991

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for those remarks. It is a successful effort, with industry and Government working together, to ensure that British industry plays as leading a role in the reconstruction of Kuwait as we did in its liberation. We can learn and have learnt lessons from that and we have put them into practice elsewhere. I have just led a joint operation—business and Government again working together—in Venezuela. In Caracas we set up a task force of nine business men supported by two Government officials. The task force will stay there for several months and we believe that it will make a major impact on the Venezuelan market, which will benefit a wide range of companies in this country.