HC Deb 15 January 1998 vol 304 cc260-1W
Mr. Wilshire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list all overseas visits made since 1 May 1997 on which he or any other Minister in his Department has been accompanied under Rule 83 of the Ministerial Code, indicating(a) who accompanied him or her and (b) the cost to public funds of each such visit. [23257]

Mr. Prescott

My wife accompanied me to The Hague on 26 May 1997 when I represented the Government at the Marshall Plan Commemoration. The travel costs to public funds were £649.04 and we stayed at the Ambassador's Residence.