§ Mr. SillarsTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the number of Council of Ministers meetings since 1979, and indicate at which the Scottish Office was present in a Civil Service capacity in support of a United Kingdom Minister.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThere were 652 meetings of the Council of Ministers from 1980 until the end of 1988.
The United Kingdom delegation to all meetings of the Council of Ministers represents the Government of the United Kingdom as a whole.