HC Deb 06 November 1992 vol 213 cc427-8W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the fact-finding visits made in the last 12 months by the chief executive of each executive agency for which he is responsible; and what were the findings resulting from each visit.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

Responsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to both Wilton Park under its chief executive, Geoffrey Denton, and to the Natural Resources Institute under its chief executive, Anthony Beattie. I have asked them to arrange for a reply to be given.

Letter from G. Denton to Mr. Martin Redmond, dated 29 October 1992:

Thank you for your question about the number of fact finding visits made by the Chief Executive of this Agency in the last twelve months. During the year in question I did not make any fact finding visits.

Letter from A. Beattie to Mr. Martin Redmond, dated 28 October 1992: Lady Chalker has asked me to reply to your Parliamentary Question about fact-finding visits by chief executives of Agencies. On 8 November 1991 I visited Hadlow College in Kent to brief myself on the College's facilities and courses. On 8 May this year I went to the EC's centre for Tropical Agriculture (CTA) at Wageningen in The Netherlands to explore the scope for collaboration between the Centre and NRI and to sign a memorandum of understanding covering joint activities.