§ Mr. Matthew TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many times ministers in his Department met their counterparts in the US Administration between 1 January 1998 and 1 June 1998, indicating the dates and locations of each meeting, the ministers involved and the name of the US counterpart. [81081]
§ Mr. WilsonI refer the hon. Member to the first sentence of the answer my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State gave to his question, on 26 February 1999,Official Report, column 467. In the period 1 January 1998 to 1 June 1998, these included the meeting between the then-President of the Board of Trade and Charlene Barshefsky, US Trade Representative, at the EU/US Summit in Birmingham on 18 May.