Export Credit Guarantee (Pakistan)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 25 Mehefin 1964.

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Photo of Mr Douglas Jay Mr Douglas Jay , Battersea North 12:00, 25 Mehefin 1964

I am grateful to the Minister of State for arranging for me to discuss this with the E.C.G.D., but is it not extraordinary, at a time when the Government are, rightly, giving guarantees for 15-year credits to Russia and 12-year contracts to Czechoslovakia, and when the French syndicate concerned is willing to offer a 10-year credit in this case to Pakistan, that Her Majesty's Government should refuse to make a similar offer? Is the Minister aware that the Pakistan group in this case is very anxious to place the order with British industry and that nothing but the attitude of his Department is forcing it to place the order with France instead?