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Invoices
Mrs. Roche: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the amount owed to those businesses whose invoices were not paid within the agreed credit period or within 30 days in each of the last five years. [1123]
Mr. Hanley [holding answer 22 November]: The information available about the amount owed--expressed as a figure and as a percentage of payments as a whole-- is set out in the following table:
| £000 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993-94 | 1994-95 | (38)1995-96 | |
| FCO (DW) | -- | 210 (8 per cent.) | 243 (8 per cent.) |
| ODA | 26,242 (13 per cent.) | 55,356 (13 per cent.) | 20,580 (7 per cent.) |
| Wilton Park | -- | 1 (5 per cent.) | -- |
| NRI | -- | 1,460 (4 per cent.) | 1,340 (8 per cent.) |
(38) To end of October. Most of these invoices have now been paid.
To obtain detailed information about amounts owed in earlier years would incur disproportionate cost.
Former Yugoslavia
Mr. Tredinnick: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the prospects for peace in the former Yugoslavia. [866]
- 23. Mr. Simon Coombs: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the progress of talks aimed at a permanent settlement in Bosnia; [877]
Mr. Rifkind: I refer the hon. Members to the statement I made in the House on 22 November, Official Report, columns 659-61.
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Mr. Richard Shepherd:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what code governs the conduct of staff at the European Commission's office in London. [2793]
Mr. David Davis:
The code of conduct is available from the European Commission office at:
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Foreign Assets
Mr. Tony Lloyd: To ask the President of the Board of Trade if his Department has seized or frozen personal accounts and assets of members of foreign Governments; what was seized or frozen; and if he will make a statement. [2918]