HC Deb 12 July 1995 vol 263 cc602-4W
Mr. George Howarth

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list(a) details of all overseas trips made by him, or ministerial colleagues in his Department, paid for wholly or partly from public funds and (b) the purpose, destination and duration of such overseas trips, which officials accompanied him and the total cost in each case, including that of officials, to public funds for each year since 1992. [32264]

Mr. Howard

The information below reflects that which is available centrally. Precise details of officials who travelled with Ministers are not available, but generally, Ministers will have been accompanied by a private secretary and an official.

  • 1–9 January 1992: Right hon. Kenneth Baker; India and Pakistan on immigration matters
  • 21–22 January 1992: Right hon. Dame Angela Rumbold; Luxembourg
  • 22–23 January 1992: Right hon. Dame Angela Rumbold; The Netherlands
  • 3–4 March 1992: Right hon. Kenneth Baker; Lisbon for meeting with Minister of the Interior
  • 10–11 June 1992: Right hon. Kenneth Clarke; Lisbon for TREVI Council
  • 8–11 June 1992: Mr. Jack; European Ministers of Justice meeting in Cyprus
  • 6–15 September 1992: Right hon. Kenneth Clarke; South America
  • 17–18 September 1992: Right hon. Kenneth Clarke; Justice and Home Affairs Council, Brussels
  • 14–29 September 1992: Mr. Wardle; India on immigration matters
  • 16–18 October 1992: Right hon. Sir Peter Lloyd; USA
  • 23–24 November 1992: Right hon. Kenneth Clarke; Committee on Civil Liberties, Brussels
  • 14–16 February 1993: Right hon. Kenneth, Clarke; Conference in Budapest
  • 5–6 May 1993: Right hon. Kenneth Clarke; Report on International Organised Crime, Denmark
  • 27–28 May 1993: Right hon. Sir Peter Lloyd; Italy
  • 1–3 June 1993: Mr. Wardle; Belgium and Holland
  • 28–29 September 1993: Right hon. David Maclean; European Ministers of Justice meeting in Brussels
  • 21–22 October 1993: Right hon. David Maclean; 3rd European Ministerial Conference on Equality between Men and Women in Rome
  • 18–19 November 1993: Mr. Wardle; Greece
  • 28–30 November 1993: Mr. Wardle; Justice and Home Affairs Council, Brussels
  • 1–8 January 1994: Home Secretary; visit to USA
  • 11 March 1994: Home Secretary; meeting with French Minister of Justice, Paris
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  • 22 March 1994: Home Secretary; Justice and Home Affairs Council, Brussels
  • 5–7 May 1994: Mr. Wardle; Thessalonika
  • 13–15 June 1994: Right hon. David Maclean; 19th Conference of European Ministers of Justice, Malta
  • 19–20 June 1994: Mr. Wardle; Justice and Home Affairs Council, Luxembourg
  • 20 August-3 September 1994: Home Secretary; visit to South America
  • 7 September 1994: Right hon. Michael Forsyth; Justice and Home Affairs Council, Berlin
  • 7–8 September 1994: Home Secretary; Justice and Home Affairs Council, Berlin
  • 20–23 November 1994: Right hon. David Maclean; UN Conference on Organised Crime in Naples
  • 30 November 1994: Home Secretary; Justice and Home Affairs Council, Brussels
  • 1 December 1994: Mr. Baker; Justice and Home Affairs Council, Brussels
  • 8 December 1994: The Right hon. The Baroness Blatch; Internal Market Council, Brussels
  • 18–20 December 1994: Right hon.David Maclean; visit to Bosnia
  • 21 December 1994: Mr. Baker; Coquelles (immigration trip)
  • 4–5 January 1995: The Right hon. The Baroness Blatch; Stockholm, meeting Swedish Minister of Justice
  • 11–12 January 1995: The Right hon. The Baroness Blatch; Copenhagen/The Hague for meetings with the Danish Minister of Justice and the Dutch Minister for European Affairs
  • 13 January 1995: Home Secretary; meeting French Ministers of the Interior, Paris
  • 16–17 January 1995: Right hon. Michael Forsyth; Data Protection meeting in Vienna and Rome
  • 19–20 January 1995: The Right hon. The Baroness Blatch; Helsinki/Bonn to attend meetings with the Finnish and German Ministers of Justice
  • 25–26 January 1995: Right hon. Michael Forsyth; Justice and Home Affairs Council, Paris
  • 30 January 1995: The Right hon. The Baroness Blatch; Madrid to meet Spanish Minister for Europe
  • 6 February 1995: The Right hon. The Baroness Blatch; Foreign Affairs Council, Brussels
  • 10 February 1995: Right hon. David Maclean; Council of Europe Conference on Equality and Democracy, Strasbourg
  • 21–23 February 1995: Right hon. David Maclean; South Africa on export promotion
  • 9–10 March 1995: Right hon. Michael Forsyth; Justice and Home Affairs Council, Brussels
  • 19 April 1995: Right hon. Michael Forsyth; Justice and Home Affairs Council, Paris
  • 24–27 April 1995: Right hon. Michael Forsyth; visit high security prisons in the USA
  • 30 April-2 May 1995: Right hon. David Maclean; visit to Bosnia
  • 12 June 1995:Home Secretary; meeting new French Minister of the Interior in Paris

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Date Destination Purpose Duration Officials attending Cost to public funds
28–29 April 1992 Brussels/Luxembourg EC Research Council 2 days Five 1—
29–30 July 1992 Paris Carnegie Group 2 days None 1—
8–9 September 1992 Rome/Bonn Science Visit 2 days Two 1—i
11–12 October 1992 Luxembourg EC Research Council 2 days Five 1—

20–21 June 1995Home Secretary; Justice and Home Affairs Council, Luxembourg.

For 1993–94 the cost of ministerial visits, excluding private secretaries and other accompanying officials, was £39,891. On the same basis the cost for 1994–95 was £40,440 and £13,191 for the same period April to June 1995.

The only figures available for 1992–93 relate to visits by Ministers and senior officials. The costs of these amounted to £131,792. The figures cannot be compared with those for later years since they are on a different basis.