HC Deb 10 May 1989 vol 152 cc469-70W
Mr. Salmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list(a) the number and character of Council of Ministers meetings in each of the past two years, (b) the Ministers who represented the United Kingdom by Department and (c) by Department and grade of the civil servants who attended.

Mrs. Chalker

The information requested at(a) and (b) is provided in the relevant six-monthly White Papers on developments in the European Community, copies of which are deposited in the Library of the House. But details of attendance by civil servants by Department and grade could be provided only at disproportionate cost.