§ Mr. Terry Lewisasked the Prime Minister if she will publish in the Official Report, Prime Ministerial Visits overseas in each year since 1979.
§ The Prime MinisterThe information is as follows (holiday visits have been excluded):
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1979 June France (two visits) June-July Japan Soviet Union (Stop-over) Australia July-August Zambia October Italy Luxembourg Germany November Republic of Ireland December United States of America 1980 April Luxembourg May Yugoslavia June Italy (two visits) September France Greece Yugoslavia November Germany Italy December Luxembourg Republic of Ireland 1981 February Netherlands February-March United States of America March Netherlands April India Saudi Arabia Abu Dhabi Dubai Oman Qatar June Luxembourg July Canada September-October Kuwait Bahrain Australia Pakistan October Mexico November Germany December France 1982 March Belgium June France Germany United States of America Belgium July Italy September Hong Kong
China Japan October Germany November France December Denmark 1983 January Falkland Islands March Belgium May United States of America June Germany September Germany Netherlands Canada United States of America November Germany India December Greece 1984 January France Italy February Hungary Soviet Union March Belgium April Portugal May France June France November India November-December France December Republic of Ireland China Hong Kong United States of America 1985 January Germany February United States of America March Soviet Union Belgium April Malaysia Brunei Indonesia Singapore Sri Lanka India Saudi Arabia May Germany June Italy July United States of America September Egypt Jordan October Bahamas United States of America November Belgium December Luxembourg 1986 January France March Italy May Korea Japan Israel June Netherlands July Canada September Norway Federal Republic of Germany November United States of America France December France
§ Mr. Terry Lewisasked the Prime Minister if she will list in the Official Report all Prime Ministerial visits to (a) the city of Manchester and (b) the city of Salford in each year since 1979.
§ The Prime MinisterThe information requested is as follows:
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- 31 August 1979
- 15 January 1982
- 11 December 1986
(b) City of Salford
- 31 August 1979
- 15 January 1982
- 12 December 1986
§ Mr. Terry Lewisasked the Prime Minister if she will list in the Official Report all Prime Ministerial visits to (a) Humberside, (b) South Yorkshire, (c) Greater Manchester, (d) Merseyside, (e) the West Midlands and (f) Cleveland in each year since 1979.
§ The Prime MinisterThe information requested is as follows:
(a) Humberside
- March 1980
(b) South Yorkshire
- April 1983
(c) Greater Manchester
- August 1979
- January 1982
- August 1985
- December 1986
(d) Merseyside
- April 1981
- July 1981
- October 1984
(e) West Midlands
- July 1979
- April 1980
- October 1980
- February 1984
- September 1985
(f) Cleveland
- September 1985
- September 1986
§ Mr. Terry Lewisasked the Prime Minister if she will list in the Official Report all Prime Ministerial visits to (a) Scotland, and (b) Wales in each year since 1979.
§ The Prime MinisterThe information requested is as follows:
(a) Scotland
- 1979 — 10–11 July and 5–7 September
- 1980 — 4–5 July and 4–5 September
- 1981 — 15–16 May and 3 September
- 1982 — 15 May, 31 July and 1–2 September
- 1983 — 28–29 January, 31 August and 1 September
- 1984 — 5–6 September
- 1985 — 5–6 and 9–10 September
- 1986 — 25–26 April, 31 July, 1 August and 3–5 September
(b) Wales
- 1980 — 17–18 July
- — 11 December
- 1982 — 2 July
- 1984 — 21September
- 1985 — 26 April
- 1986 — 21 June
I have omitted from the above any dates on which I was solely engaged on party business or was a guest of Her Majesty The Queen.