§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will give details of the allowances and expenses drawn by the British delegates to the Council of Europe for the past 12 months.
§ Mr. William RodgersThe cost of delegates' fares to and from Strasbourg for the Assembly's sessions and for meetings of the Assembly's Committees and of subsistence allowances paid to delegates for periods spent abroad on Assembly business for the 12 months from June 1967 to May 1968 is approximately £18,200.
§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will give, for the longest convenient stated period of time, the names of British delegates to the Council of Europe who have been delegates on more than one occasion, and, in these instances, the number of times they have visited Strasbourg as British delegates.
§ Mr. William RodgersNo. The names of delegates to the Council of Europe are given to the House on their appointment, the last occasion being in my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister's answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Stretford (Dr. Ernest A. Davies) on 26th April. As for visits to Strasbourg, 267W it is not the practice to publish attendance records of an all-party Parliamentary delegation of this kind.—[Vol. 763, c. 90–2.]