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Richard Burden
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(8 years, 2 months ago)
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Mr Speaker
Demand always massively exceeds supply at Question Time, especially at Foreign Office questions. We do not really have time, but I am allowing time for one last question. I call Mr Richard Burden.
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield) (Lab)
May I press the Foreign Secretary further on the answer he gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts)? Is there anything in World Trade Organisation or other rules that fetters a public institution’s ability to act on the advice that the FCO puts on its website, which my hon. Friend quoted?
Mr Hammond
Public bodies in this country are bound by the EU procurement directive in their purchasing activity and must follow those rules.