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Yemen
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Dr. Marek: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give details of the extra aid given to the People's Democratic Republic of the Yemen as a result of the floods earlier in 1989.
Mr. Chris Patten: We gave relief assistance totalling £179,000 in response to this emergency. This aid took the form of tents, blankets, foodstuffs, water purification tablets and vehicles.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Departmental Costs
Mr. Boswell: To ask the secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement about the running cost limit for the Northern Ireland Office and Northern Ireland Department.
Mr. Ian Stewart: The running cost limit for 1989-90 for the Northern Ireland Office and the Northern Ireland Departments is being set at £543.03 million. Further details of provision for individual Departments are set out in the appropriate Estimates volumes.
HOUSE OF COMMONS
Statutory Instruments
Dr. David Clark: To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will list the numbers of statutory instruments issued by each Government Department in each of the last five years indicating how many were subject to affirmative procedure and how many to negative procedure.
Mr. Wakeham: The information is not held centrally in the form requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
Cambodia
SEAD
Mr. Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what meetings his Department's representatives has had with (a) the Government of Kampuchea, (b) the Government of Vietnam, (c) the Khmer Rouge and (d) Prince Sihanouk.
Mr. Eggar: We have no dealings with the so-called Government of Kampuchea or with the Khmer Rouge. We have regular contact with the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam through our respective embassies. My noble Friend the Minister of State, Lord Glenarthur, paid the first ever visit by a British Minister to the SRV. from 9 to 14 April 1989. Most recently, the Vietnamese Foreign Minister called on my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State and my noble Friend the Minister of State on 28 June 1989. We have regular meetings with Prince Sihanouk and his representatives. The Prince saw my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and my right hon. and learned Friend he Secretary of State during his visit to London in October 1988.
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Mr. Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs who will be the United Kingdom's representatives at the Paris conference on the future of Cambodia.
Mr. Eggar: The composition of the United Kingdom delegation to the international conference on Cambodia in Paris, to which formal invitations have yet to be issued, has not yet been decided. But we expect to be invited and to play an active part.
Nuclear Weapons (Testing)
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Mrs. Ruddock: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if Her Majesty's Government's plan to respond to the proposal made by the Soviet Union on 24 June that a global moratorium be implemented on the testing of nuclear weapons.
Mr. Waldegrave: No. The Soviet proposal is not a new one. A moratorium would not be compatible with our policy on the testing of nuclear weapons which was set out by my hon. Friend the then Minister of State (Mr. Mellor) in answer to a question on 27 June 1988.
Cyprus
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Mr. Speed: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will state the number of times Ministers have had discussions about the Cyprus problem with President Vassiliou and the leader of the Turkish Cypriot community, Mr. Raul Denktash, respectively, since the last presidential elections in Cyprus.
Mrs. Chalker: My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has discussed the Cyprus problem with President Vassiliou on five occasions since his election in February 1988. My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs was present at two of those meetings and has also met Mr. Vassiliou separately on three other occasions. I attended one of those meetings and have also met the President twice separately. For reasons that are well known to the House, Mr. Denktash has not been received by Ministers during that period.
Chlorofluorocarbons
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Sir Hugh Rossi: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what plans exist to ensure the safe disposal of both chlorofluorocarbon refrigerant material and chlorofluorocarbon II in the foam in refrigeration and air-cooling equipment under the control of his Department.
Mr. Eggar: I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given today by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, the hon. Member for Surrey, South-West (Mrs. Bottomley).
Vietnamese Boat People
SEAD
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Dr. Marek: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what finance has been made available to the Hong Kong authorities for the care and settlement of Vietnamese boat people over each of the last five years.
Mr. Eggar: The following funds have been made available to the Hong Kong Government for the care of