HC Deb 09 June 2004 vol 422 cc408-10W
Matthew Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list visits made by each Minister in the Department between December 2003 and April 2004, broken down by(a) date, (b) constituency visited and (c) cost. [171561]

Ms Hewitt

Between December 2003 and April 2004 DTI Ministers undertook the following domestic visits:

Date Constituency visited Cost for Minister (£)
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
5 December 2003 Bristol, North, Monmouth and Cardiff, Central 179
Minister for Industry, Regions and Deputy Minister for Women and Equality
9 December 2003 Morley and 406

Date Constituency visited Cost for Minister (£)
Rothwell,Bradford, North, Leeds, Central
11 December 2003 The Wrekin 200
16 December 2003 Kingswood Bristol, East Yeovil 303
5 January 2004 Redditch Meriden

Birmingham, Yardley

Warwick and

Leamington

315
13 January 2004 Newham 1
29 January 2004 Dudley, South

Birmingham, Ladywood

286
11 February 2004 Cheadle 350
25 February 2004 Hyndburn Lancaster

and Wyre Preston

210
10 March 2004 Eastbourne 31
15 March 2004 Wolverhampton, South-

West Wolverhampton,

North-East

368
22 March 2004 Oxford, East 437
25 March 2004 West Bromwich 170
1 April 2004 Ilford, North 1
2 April 2004 Birmingham, Edgbaston 120
16 April 2004 Newcastle upon Tyne,

East and Wallsend

505
20 April 2004 Ellesmere Port and Neston 365
22 April 2004 Meriden 150
27 April 2004 West Ham Bethnal

Green and Bow

Cities of London and

Westminster

1
Minister for Energy, e Commerce and Postal Services
6 January 2004 Fylde and Blackburn 283
19 January 2004 Newbury 147
11 February 2004 Bristol, East,
Bristol, West and
Bristol, North-West
25 February 2004 North-West

Cambridgeshire and

Peterborough

80
15 March 2004 Mansfield and City of York 179
17 March 2004 North Warwickshire 167
22 March 2004 South Swindon 102
1 April 2004 Luton, South 31
Minister for Trade
15 January 2004 Stratford-on-Avon 75
5 February 2004 Bosworth 85
3 March 2004 Broxtowe 126
9 March 2004 Glasgow, Kelvin Glasgow, Govan Glasgow, Maryhill 557
11 March 2004 Cambridge 108
24 April 2003 Blaby 466
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Small Business and Enterprise
21 April 2004 Tewkesbury 150
26 April 2004 Meriden Birmingham,

Edgbaston Stoke-on-

Trent, North

109
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science and Innovation
12 January 2004 Harrogate and

Knaresborough

231
20 January 2004 Sheffield, Central 191
30 January 2004 Runcorn East,

Liverpool Central

Wirral, South

327
5 February 2004 Cambridge 1
19 February 2004 Croydon, South 6.00
20 February 2004 Southampton, Test 85
4 March 2004 Northampton, South

and Cambridge

1
1 April 2004 Canterbury 1
30 April 2004 Edinburgh, South and

East Kilbride

388
Date Constituency visited Cost for Minister (£)
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment Relations,

Competition and Consumers

15 January 2004 Gateshead, East and

Washington, West

135
12 February 2004 Warwick and Leamington 59
13 February 2004 Leeds, Central 0
27 February 2004 Liverpool, Riverside 245
9 March 2004 Edinburgh, North and

Leith

285
11 March 2004 Birmingham 141
22 March 2004 Sheffield, Central 181
30 April 2004 Bradford, South 0
1 Costs for these visits are included in normal office running costs.

In respect of overseas visits, the Government publish on an annual basis the total costs of all ministerial overseas travel and a list of all visits by Cabinet Ministers costing in excess of £500. Information for 2003–4 is currently being collected and will be published as soon as it is ready.

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