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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
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18/10/89
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TEXT OF QUESTION :-
MR TONY BANKS (NEWHAM NORTH WEST) To ask the Secretary of State/HMG;
NOON 17/10/89
if he will give details of the sale by tender by the Hong Kong authorities of confiscated items permitted for commercial trade under CITES: what items were sold; to whom they were sold: and what amount was raised in each case.
to P/S
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(Minister)
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NOON
(Minister)
ANSWER:
There has been no sale by tender of confiscated items permitted
for commercial trade under CITES since February 1988. A sale
by tender, planned for January 1989, was cancelled.
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