HC Deb 30 January 1986 vol 90 cc586-9W
Mr. George Robertson

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list in the Official Report all ministerial visits to Warsaw pact countries since May 1979, giving the dates of the visits and the Minister concerned.

Mr. Renton

Ministerial visits to Warsaw pact countries since May 1979 are as follows:

1979

24 to 25 September Sir George Young, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health and Social Security, to GDR/East Berlin.

18 to 21 November Mr. Peter Blaker, Minister of State Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Poland.

1980

9 to 15 March Mr. Cecil Parkinson, Secretary of State for Trade, to GDR/East Berlin.

12 to 14 March Lord Carrington, Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Romania.

12 to 16 September Mr. Norman Tebbit, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Trade, to Czechoslovakia for Brno Fair.

26 to 30 September Mr. Reginald Eyre, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Trade, to Bulgaria.

30 September to 3 October Mr. Peter Blaker, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Bulgaria.

6 to 8 October Mr. Hamish Gray, Minister of State, Department of Energy, to Czechoslovakia.

13 to 17 October Mr. Cecil Parkinson, Secretary of State for Trade, to Romania.

27 to 29 October Lord Carrington, Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Hungary.

29 to 31 October Lord Carrington, Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Poland.

3 to 5 November Mr. Peter Blaker, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to GDR/East Berlin.

10 to 14 November Mr. Cecil Parkinson, Secretary of State for Trade, to Poland.

22 to 25 November Mr. Peter Blaker, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Czechoslovakia.

1981

16 to 18 March Lord Trefgarne, Minister of State for Trade, to GDR/East Berlin.

5 to 6 July Lord Carrington, Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office to Moscow (as President of the Council of Ministers).

21 to 24 September Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith, Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, to Hungary.

5 to 9 October Mr. Reginald Eyre, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Trade, to Hungary.

30 November to 2 December Lord Trefgarne, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Poland.

14 to 16 December Lord Trefgarne, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Czechoslovakia.

1982

16 to 18 June Mr. Malcolm Rifkind, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Hungary.

28 August to 1 September Baroness Young, Lord Privy Seal, to Czechoslovakia.

25 to 29 September Mr. Malcolm Rifkind, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Bulgaria.

26 September Mr. Peter Rees, Minister for Trade, to USSR.

29 September to 3 October Mr. Malcolm Rifkind, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Romania.

14 to 18 October Mr. Peter Rees, Minister for Trade, to Hungary.

18 to 20 October Mr. Peter Rees, Minister for Trade, to Czechoslovakia

15 November Mr. Francis Pym, Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Moscow (President Brezhnev's Funeral)

1983

11 to 14 March Mr. Peter Rees, Minister for Trade, to GDR/East Berlin

10 to 13 April Baroness Young, Lord Privy Seal, to Bulgaria.

24 to 29 April Mr. Malcolm Rifkind, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Moscow.

12 to 14 September Sir Geoffrey Howe, Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Hungary.

25 to 29 September Mr. John Macgregor, Minister of State for Agriculture, to Bulgaria.

4 to 6 October Mr. Malcolm Rifkind, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to GDR/East Berlin.

6 to 7 October Mr. Malcolm Rifkind, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Czechoslovakia.

1984

2 to 4 February Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, to Hungary.

13 to 14 February Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, to Moscow for President's Andropov's funeral.

13 to 14 February Sir Geoffrey Howe, Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Moscow.

May Mr. Paul Channon, Minister for Trade, to Moscow.

29 June to 3 July Mr. Kenneth Clarke, Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security to GDR/East Berlin.

2 to 3 July Sir Geoffrey Howe, Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Moscow.

11 to 13 July Mr. Paul Channon, Minister for Trade, to Bulgaria.

3 to 7 November Mr. Malcolm Rifkind, Minister of State Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Poland

14 to 19 November Mr. Kenneth Clarke, Minister of Health, to Hungary.

1985

8 to 10 February Sir Geoffrey Howe, Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Romania.

10 to 11 February Sir Geoffrey Howe, Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Bulgaria.

18 to 22 February Mrs. Peggy Fenner, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, to Moscow.

8 to 12 March Mr. Paul Channon Minister for Trade, to GDR/East Berlin.

13 March Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, to Moscow for President Chernenko's funeral.

13 March Sir Geoffrey Howe, Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office to Moscow for President Chernenko's funeral.

7 to 11 April Mr. Peter Rees, Chief Secretary, Treasury, to Hungary.

8 to 10 April Sir Geoffrey Howe, Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to GDR/East Berlin.

10 to 11 April Sir Geoffrey Howe, Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Czechoslovakia.

11 to 13 April Sir Geoffrey Howe, Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office to Poland.

23 to 26 May Mr. Channon, Minister for Trade, to Czechoslovakia.

25 to 28 July Mr. Malcolm Rifkind, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to Moscow.

30 August to 3 September Mr. Michael Jopling, Minister of Agriculture, to GDR/East Berlin.

1 to 7 October Mr. David Hunt, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Energy, to Budapest.

2 to 7 October Mr. Peter Brooke, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Education and Science, to Bulgaria.