HC Deb 11 January 1989 vol 144 cc701-2W
16. Mr. Harry Barnes

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on his contacts with the Government of Malta over the past three years.

Sir Geoffrey Howe

My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and I have frequent contacts with the Maltese Government, the most recent ones being in September last year, when their Prime Minister visited London for three days. My right hon. Friend the Minister of State will be seeing the Maltese Prime Minister again on 13 January.