HC Deb 15 February 2000 vol 344 c535W
Mr. Jim Murphy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health 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. [109877]

Ms Stuart

There was a meeting between my right hon. Friend the then Minister for Public Health and the Federal Minister for Labour, Health and Social Affairs, Mrs. Eleonora Hostasch, on 11 March 1998, when key topics in the European Union public health field were discussed.

There have been no other bilateral contacts at senior official or ministerial level since May 1997.