Overseas Visits (Hansard, 18 March 1996)

§ Mr. Hall

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will place in the Library a list of all overseas visits made by all Ministers of his Department since 1990, including(a) details of the places visited and brief reasons for the visit, (b) details of the size, composition and cost

Overseas visits made by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and other NIO Ministers in 1995
Date	Place	Visit Reason	Delegation	Cost (£)
5–6 February	Brussels	Trade mission	Baroness Denton and private secretary	1,053
12–18 March	Vancouver, Seattle and San Francisco	Trade mission	Baroness Denton and private secretary	9,023
26–29 March	Tokyo	Trade mission	Baroness Denton and private secretary	11,476
11–12 April	France	To promote Her Majesty's Government policy on Northern Ireland	Secretary of State, private secretary and one official	8,563
30 April–2 May	Boston	Trade promotion event	Baroness Denton and private secretary	5,988
21–31 May	Boston, Washington, New York and Chicago	White House Investment Conference, Supporting IDB's Inward Investment Chicago Team and to provide Her Majesty's Government policy on Northern Ireland	Secretary of State, Baroness Denton, Malcolm Moss, three Private Secretaries, four Officials and two Police Officers	36,633
11–12 June	Milan	Trade mission	Baroness Denton, private secretary and press officer	1,500
14 June	Paris	Paris air show/meeting Bombardier	Baroness Denton and private secretary	1,053
3–6 September	Chicago	Support IDB's inward investment team	Baroness Denton and private secretary	7,803
7–8 September	Washington	To brief national security adviser, senators and press on Her Majesty's Government policy on Northern Ireland	Michael Ancram and private secretary	8,024
17–24 September	Atlanta, Denver and Phoenix	Support IDB's inward investment drive in USA	Baroness Denton and private secretary	10,285
18–28 September	Australia and New Zealand	To provide Her Majesty's Government policy on Northern Ireland	Secretary of State, private secretary, Lady Mayhew, two officials and two police officers	33,152
27–29 September	Vienna	Keynote speech, International New Towns Association conference	Malcolm Moss, private secretary and two officials	1,230
2–4 October	Rome	Meeting with Italian Government on criminal justice and security matters	Sir John Wheeler, private secretary and one official	1,644
3–6 October	Boston and New York	Trade mission and ICC USA annual dinner	Baroness Denton, private secretary and press officer	8,500
17–21 October	Dallas	Trade mission	Baroness Denton and private secretary	6,057
12–14 November	Singapore	Trade mission	Baroness Denton and private secretary	4,313
20–21 December	Brussels	Fisheries Council of Ministers meeting	Baroness Denton, private secretary and two officials	676

Non-ministerial members of the delegations have not been named as it is not normal policy to do so. They were in attendance to provide support for Ministers. 26W to public funds of the delegation and (c) the names of non-ministerial members of each delegation and the capacity in which each was present. [17487]