§ Mr. George Robertsonasked 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. RentonMinisterial 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
587WLord 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 Czechoslovakia15 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 Berlin10 to 13 April
Baroness Young, Lord Privy Seal, to Bulgaria.24 to 29 April
588WMr. 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 Poland14 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
589WMr. 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.