HC Deb 15 February 2001 vol 363 cc288-9W
Mr. Mackinlay

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the programme of visits to central and eastern Europe planned for Ministers in his Department. [149011]

Ms Hewitt

My noble Friend the Minister for Science will visit Poland on 19–20 February. The overseas visit programme for DTI Ministers for the second half of this year is currently under consideration.

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, my hon. Friend the Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson), will be visiting Lithuania in March on trade and investment issues.