HC Deb 19 April 2004 vol 420 cc79-80W
Richard Burden

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the ministerial visits from(a) his and (b) other Government Departments to (i) Israel and (ii) the Occupied Territories in each of the past 10 years. [163659]

Mr. Rammell

Since 2000, the year in which the second Intifada began, the following ministerial visits have taken place to Israel and the Occupied Territories (OTs):

Ministerial visit
2000
29 February to 1 March Peter Mandelson, Minister for Northern Ireland—Israel
28 to 30 March Peter Hain. FCO Minister—Israel and OTs
24 to 26 June David Trimble, Northern Ireland Minister—Israel and OTs
29 to 31 August Peter Hain, FCO Minister—Israel and OTs
2001
20 to 22 July Bed Bradshaw, FCO Minister—Israel and OTs
24 September Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary—Israel and OTs
1 November Prime Minister—Israel and OTs
2002
14 to 17 January Bed Bradshaw, FCO Minister—Israel and OTs
13–14 February Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary—Israel and OTs
3 to 4 July Mike O'Brien, FCO Minister—Israel and OTs
2003
28 to 31 July Hilary Benn. DFID Minister—OTs
30 September to 1 October Baroness Symons, FCO Minister—Israel
2004
21 to 23 January Baroness Symons, FCO Minister—OTs
21 to 26 February Stephen Twigg, DFES Minister—Israel and OTs

Records prior to 2000 are not held centrally and drawing up a comprehensive list dating back to 1994 would incur disproportionate costs.