§ Dr. David ClarkTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many meetings he or his ministerial colleagues have had in 1988 with(a) the National Farmers Union, (b) the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, (c) the Council for the Protection of Rural England, (d) the Royal Society for Nature Conservation, (e) the World Wide Fund for Nature, (f) the Friends of the Earth, (g) the National Consumer Council, (h) Consumers in the European Community Group, (i) the London Food Commission, and (j) the United Kingdom Agricultural Supply Trade Association.
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§ Mr. MacGregorMinisters in my Department have contact with a vast number of organisations and individuals. These contacts include many with similar interests to those listed in the question, but also inevitably go much wider than this.
The number of identifiable formal ministerial meetings which Ministers had during 1988, which included the national representatives of the organisations listed was: (a) 37, (b) 4, (c) 2, (d) 0, (e) 0, (f) 0, (g) 2, (h) 0, (i) 1, (j) 7. However, these meetings form just a small part of the very wide ranging contacts which my Ministers and officials have all over the country with these and other organisations.