The [UK] Government was accused of "immoral" double standards...[for] encouraging British businesses to do trade deals with Sudan...[whose] president who is wanted for war crimes. As aid agencies and the UN warned that the humanitarian crisis caused by the Sudanese government was close to breaking point, UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), an agency of the Department for Business, co-operated with a trade mission to Khartoum...[and] has also produced a brochure for British firms entitled Doing Business in Sudan, a country that "offers profitable business opportunities" in industries including gold and copper mining, oil exploration and construction...[When challenged] by the cross-bench peer Lord Alton...that the Government's failure to take action against President Bashir showed it was "business as usual", Lord Howell [a Foreign Office minister] said: "The indictments are out, but there are real problems pinning these people down …" ...A spokesman for UKTI said a Doing Business document was "routine"...and that officials raised humanitarian concerns on a "very regular basis with the government of Sudan". The spokesman insisted that UKTI did not "actively promote trade with Sudan".