HC Deb 14 February 2000 vol 344 cc374-5W
Mr. Jim Murphy

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many bilateral meetings were held between his Department and its Austrian counterpart in each of the last five years; and what was discussed at each meeting since May 1997. [109874]

Mr. Hoon

Since 1995 the following senior-level bilateral meetings were held between representatives of the Ministry of Defence and its Austrian counterpart:

Year Number of meetings
1995 2
1996 0
1997 5
1998 3
1999 0

In addition, a number of low-level or informal meetings will have been held but details of such meetings are not held centrally. Discussions will have covered a wide range of issues of defence co-operation.

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