§ Sir Donald Kaberryasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many Ministers in his Department have made journeys abroad; if he will specify the number of separate occasions (a) to EEC countries and (b) to overseas count-tries outside the EEC within the 12 months to 30 June; how many staff of his Department and others accompanied the individual Minister on each occasion; what was the cost on each occasion in respect of travel, subsistence and other expenditure involved; how many days were occupied on each visit; what was the object of each journey; and how many such visits are now planned to be undertaken from 1 July to 31 December.
§ Mr. HeseltineThe information on each journey made is as follows (altogether, five Ministers in my Department were involved):
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Journey (EEC countries) No of accompanying staff Cost (£) No of days Object (a) 5 690 1 Council of Ministers Meeting (b) 6 1,160 1 Council of Ministers Meeting (c) 1 255 1 Inspection of flood prevention project in Netherlands (d) 1 221 1 OECD conference on noise (e) 1 375 2 Meeting of European sports ministers (f) 2 390 1 Discussion on draft Community architects directive (g) 2 630 4 PSA organisation in Germany (Other countries) (a) 3 1,610 3 Conference of European local government Ministers (b) 1 535 3 UN Conference on Pollution (c) 1 1,885 15 Special Olympics for the mentally handicapped (d) 1 495 6 Council of Europe (e) 1 1,055 8 Winter Olympics (f) 1 505 4 PSA organisation in Gibraltar Four further journeys are planned between 1 July and 31 December.