§ Mr. JannerTo ask the Secretary of State for Forekgn and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list all visits of Government Ministers and officials to Romania since 1979.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe following Government Ministers and senior officials have visited Romania since 1979:
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Minister or official 1979 13–15 February Sir Reginald Hibbert, Deputy Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 1980 12–14 March Lord Carrington, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. 13–17 October Mr. Cecil Parkinson, Secretary of State for Trade. 1981 None 1982 12–14 January Sir Antony Acland, Permanent Under-Secretary of State Designate at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 29 September-3 October Mr. Malcolm Rifkind, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 1983 None 1984 3–6 April Mr. Peter Corley, Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and Industry (as Chairman of the Romanian-British Joint Commission). 8–12 September Delegation of the Royal College of Defence Studies, led by Air Vice Marshal B. H. Newton. 16–21 September Major-General C. N. Thompson, Director of the Military Survey. 15–16 October Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse, First Sea Lord. 1985 8–10 February Sir Geoffrey Howe, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. 14–18 June Sir John Burgh, Director General of the British Council. 21–23 October Mr. Derek Thomas, Political Director of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 1986 21–25 April Mr. Alistair Hunter, Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and Industry (leading United Kingdom delegation to the 13th Session of United Kingdom-Romania Joint Commission on Economic and Technical Collaboration).
Minister or official 21–23 May Mr. Timothy Renton, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 1987 1–3 November Sir Patrick Wright, Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 1988 7–10 March Mr. David Ratford, Assistant Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 15–19 April Mr. Alan Clark, Minister for Trade, Department of Trade and Industry. 14–17 October Sir Mark Russell, Chief Clerk, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 1989 None 1990 15–16 January Mr. William Waldegrave, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 27 February—1 March Mr. John Redwood, Minister for Corporate Affairs, Department of Trade and Industry. 27–28 September Sir David Orr, Chairman, British Council. 7–11 October Sir Reginald Doyle, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Fire Services. A number of more junior officials, primarily from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, also paid duty visits to Romania in this period.
§ Mr. JannerTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what current measures there are to help the process of economic and political reform in Romania;
(2) if he will list all offers of aid made by Her Majesty's Government to Romania in each year since 1979.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggNo offers of aid were made by Her Majesty's Government to Romania between 1979 and December 1989. Since then we have sent humanitarian aid, bilaterally and through the European Community, totalling some £6.5 million. We have spent or are spending about £190,000 on measures to promote political and economic reform in Romania. We shall also be responsible for a proportion of the cost of an EC programme to aid Romanian children's homes, which has already committed over £9 million. I am arranging for full details to be placed in the Library of the House.