§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Prime Minister if she will give the total cost of her recent visit to the Venice conference and the number of hours she spent there.
§ The Prime MinisterThe estimated cost of my visit to the world economic summit conference in Venice with the official party from my office is £5,500. I spent 17½ hours in Venice.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Prime Minister what proposals she made at Venice for concerted action to bring down unemployment; and what action was agreed upon to monitor and combat unemployment.
§ The Prime MinisterThe Venice summit conference confirmed the need for sound finance to support non-inflationary growth. Those are the policies which in the United Kingdom have helped create the conditions for six years of growth averaging nearly 3 per cent. a year. more than a million new jobs since 1983 and, for the past 11 months, falling unemployment. I was also encouraged that the Venice summit agreed on the need for surplus and deficit countries to take action to correct their imbalances.