Iraq (Reconstruction Contracts)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry – in the House of Commons am 11:30 am ar 7 Ebrill 2005.

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Photo of Patricia Hewitt Patricia Hewitt Secretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry 11:30, 7 Ebrill 2005

My hon. Friend is right and I am delighted to say that we have been doing exactly what he asks since the end of the conflict. Indeed, the American Administration made an early attempt to impose American standards for mobile telephone technology even though European standards had been in use throughout the middle east for a long time. I am delighted to say that that proposal did not get any further.