§ Matthew TaylorTo 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 HewittBetween December 2003 and April 2004 DTI Ministers undertook the following domestic visits:
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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 410W
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
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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.