OVERSEAS TRAVEL by MINISTERS 1 April 2007 – 31 March 2008
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OVERSEAS TRAVEL BY MINISTERS 1 April 2007 – 31 March 2008 CABINET OFFICE JULY 2008 OVERSEAS TRAVEL BY MINISTERS 2007 – 2008 INDEX Page Attorney General’s Office 1 Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 2 Cabinet Office 7 Minister for the Olympics and London 8 Chief Whip (Commons) 9 Chief Whip (Lords) 10 Department for Children, Schools and Families 11 Department for Communities and Local Government 13 Department for Culture, Media and Sport 14 Ministry of Defence 16 Deputy Prime Minister’s Office 19 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 20 Foreign and Commonwealth Office 24 Department of Health 33 Home Office 34 Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills 37 Department for International Development 38 Ministry of Justice 42 Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons 44 Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords 45 Northern Ireland Office 46 Prime Minister’s Office 47 Scotland Office 49 Department for Transport 50 HM Treasury 52 Wales Office 54 Department for Work and Pensions 55 OVERSEAS TRAVEL BY MINISTERS 2007 – 2008 ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFFICE Dates Minister Destination Purpose of Trip Scheduled, ‘No No. of Officials Total cost 32 (The Royal) Accompanying including travel Squadron’, or Minister, where & ‘Other RAF’ or non scheduled accommodation ‘Charter’ travel used Attorney General 18 - 19 April Rt Hon Lord Luxembourg Justice and Home Affairs Council Scheduled £676 2007 Goldsmith QC 25 May Rt Hon Lord Munich, Meetings with G8 Justice and Interior Ministers Other RAF 3 £3,567 2007 Goldsmith QC Germany 19 – 22 Rt Hon Baroness Hong Kong International Association of Prosecutors Scheduled £5,385 September Scotland QC Conference 2007 29 – 30 Rt Hon Baroness Madeira, EU Futures Group Scheduled £1,585 October Scotland QC Portugal 2007 17 – 22 Rt Hon Baroness Baghdad, Iraq Meetings with the President, the Prime Minister, Scheduled £3,771 November Scotland QC the Minister for Justice and the Chief Justice 2007 24 – 26 Rt Hon Baroness Ljubljana, Justice and Home Affairs Council Other RAF / 1 £1,917 January Scotland QC Slovenia Scheduled 2008 15 – 20 Rt Hon Baroness New Delhi, Indo-British Legal Forum Scheduled £4,139 March 2008 Scotland QC India Solicitor General 10 – 11 Vera Baird QC MP Stockholm, Social issues fact finding Scheduled £940 January Sweden 2008 NOTE: Where the No32 (The Royal) Squadron, other RAF or Charter aircraft is used, the cost of chartering the aircraft plus any accommodation costs incurred by the Minister is shown. 1 OVERSEAS TRAVEL BY MINISTERS 2007 – 2008 DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENTERPRISE AND REGULATORY REFORM (FORMERLY DEPARTMENT FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY) Dates Minister Destination Purpose of Trip Scheduled, ‘No No. of Officials Total cost 32 (The Royal) Accompanying including travel Squadron’, or Minister, where & ‘Other RAF’ or non scheduled accommodation ‘Charter’ travel used Secretary of State 10 – 11 Rt Hon Alistair Riyadh / Abu Meetings with Industry Ministers in Riyadh. Scheduled £4,432 June 2007 Darling MP Dhabi Bilaterals with the Crown Prince and the Prime Minister in Abu Dhabi. Meetings with Industry 5 Rt Hon John Warsaw, Poland Ministerial meetings Scheduled £744 September Hutton MP 2007 1 – 5 Rt Hon John Washington DC Bilaterals with Secretary of State for Energy. Scheduled £3,598 October Hutton MP / San Francisco Meetings with various business, trade & industry 2007 / California, USA representatives Speech at RAND Corporation Conference on Globalisation / Growth and Social Justice 29 October Rt Hon John Lisbon, Portugal Launch of International Carbon Action Scheduled £1,044 2007 Hutton MP Partnership. Signature of ICAP Political Declaration. Ministerial Bilaterals 4 – 8 Rt Hon John Tokyo, Japan / Speech at the Launch of UK-Japan 2008 Scheduled £2,965 November Hutton MP Seoul, South Meetings with Ministers and various business, 2007 Korea trade & industry representatives 10 Rt Hon John Berlin, Germany Speech at Partners In Europe Scheduled £777 December Hutton MP Ministerial meetings 2007 15 – 22 Rt Hon John Delhi / Part of the Prime Minister’s delegation to India Charter / 3 £2,069 January Hutton MP Bangalore, India and China Scheduled 2008 / Beijing, China NOTE: Where the No32 (The Royal) Squadron, other RAF or Charter aircraft is used, the cost of chartering the aircraft plus any accommodation costs incurred by the Minister is shown. 2 OVERSEAS TRAVEL BY MINISTERS 2007 – 2008 25 – 26 Rt Hon John Davos, World Economic Forum meeting Charter / 2 £1,110 January Hutton MP Switzerland Scheduled 2008 24 – 26 Rt Hon John Washington DC, Ministerial bilaterals Meetings with various Scheduled £2,506 February Hutton MP USA business, trade & industry representatives 2008 Minister of State 6 - 7 July Rt Hon Margaret Luxembourg Telecoms Council Scheduled £638 2007 Hodge MP 5 – 7 Rt Hon Stephen Oslo, Norway Meeting with Peter Ruskin on oil and gas Scheduled £716 October Timms MP 2007 Minister of State 18 Lord Jones Hanover, EMO Trade Show Scheduled £746 September Germany Bilateral with British Consul General 2007 23 – 28 Lord Jones New Delhi, India Ministerial bilateral on the trade liberalisation Scheduled £6,596 September agenda 2007 8 – 10 Lord Jones Moscow / St Trade Promotion Scheduled £3,741 October Petersburg, 2007 Russia 14 – 16 Lord Jones Phoenix, USA UK Trade & Investment (UKTI)Conference Scheduled £8,308 November 2007 19 – 23 Lord Jones Beijing / Trade Promotion Scheduled £3,426 November Wuhan / 2007 Shanghai, China 26 – 28 Lord Jones Dubai, UAE Trade Promotion Scheduled £4,449 November 2007 2 – 6 Lord Jones Philadelphia / Trade Promotion Scheduled £9,322 December New York, USA 2007 NOTE: Where the No32 (The Royal) Squadron, other RAF or Charter aircraft is used, the cost of chartering the aircraft plus any accommodation costs incurred by the Minister is shown. 3 OVERSEAS TRAVEL BY MINISTERS 2007 – 2008 10 – 11 Lord Jones Dusseldorf, Trade Promotion Scheduled £615 December Germany 2007 13 – 21 Lord Jones Delhi / Part of the Prime Minister’s delegation to India Scheduled £6,750 January Bangalore, India and China 2008 / Beijing, China 23 – 25 Lord Jones Zurich, World Economic Forum Scheduled £1,885 January Switzerland 2008 30 January Lord Jones Casablanca, Trade Promotion Scheduled £1,844 – 1 Morocco February 2008 8 – 16 Lord Jones Los Angeles / Trade Promotion Scheduled £13,328 February Denver / 2008 Minneapolis / Boston / New York, USA 9 – 11 Lord Jones Saudi Arabia, Trade Promotion Scheduled £4,275 March 2008 Bahrain 24 March – Lord Jones Thailand* / Trade Promotion Scheduled £20,812 7 April 2008 Australia* / New Zealand* via Bahrain Minister of State 26 – 27 Malcolm Wicks MP Wurtzburg, Informal Competitiveness Council Scheduled £650 April 2007 Germany 5 – 9 May Malcolm Wicks MP Boston, USA BIO International Convention 2007 Scheduled £3,032 2007 31 May – 1 Malcolm Wicks MP Stockholm, Ministerial meetings Scheduled £746 June 2007 Sweden 24 – 25 Malcolm Wicks MP Luxembourg Competitiveness Council on Research & Space Scheduled £638 June 2007 Issues NOTE: Where the No32 (The Royal) Squadron, other RAF or Charter aircraft is used, the cost of chartering the aircraft plus any accommodation costs incurred by the Minister is shown. 4 OVERSEAS TRAVEL BY MINISTERS 2007 – 2008 9 – 10 Malcolm Wicks MP Berlin, Germany Gleneagles Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Scheduled £772 September Energy & Sustainable Development 2007 11 – 12 Malcolm Wicks MP Moscow, Russia UK-Russia Energy Forum Scheduled £1,531 September 2007 16 – 22 Malcolm Wicks MP Ankara / Visit to the Bosphorus Successful Traffic Scheduled £2,161 September Istanbul / Monitoring Centre. Ministerial bilaterals. Meetings 2007 Ashgabat, with various business, trade & industry Turkey / Baku, representatives Azerbaijan 3 – 4 Malcolm Wicks MP Brussels, Energy Council & European Offshore Wind Scheduled £799 December Belgium / Conference 2007 2007 Berlin, Germany 16 – 17 Malcolm Wicks MP Larnaca, Cyprus Euro-med Ministerial Conference on Energy Scheduled £967 December 2007 6 - 9 Malcolm Wicks MP Oslo, Norway 36th Sanderstolen Conference on Energy Scheduled £744 February 2008 13 – 16 Malcolm Wicks MP Chibwa, Japan Gleneagles Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Scheduled £6,099 March 2008 Energy and Sustainable Development Minister of State 5 Pat McFadden MP Estonia Meetings on EU Labour Market Dossiers Scheduled £671 September 2007 4 October Pat McFadden MP Luxembourg Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Scheduled £686 2007 Councils 28 Pat McFadden MP Warsaw, Poland Meetings with Ministers, the Working Time Scheduled £948 November Directive and the Agency Workers Directive 2007 Parliamentary Under Secretary of State 20 Gareth Thomas Geneva, Meetings on the Doha Round and Economic Scheduled £630 November MP Switzerland Partnership Agreements 2007 NOTE: Where the No32 (The Royal) Squadron, other RAF or Charter aircraft is used, the cost of chartering the aircraft plus any accommodation costs incurred by the Minister is shown. 5 OVERSEAS TRAVEL BY MINISTERS 2007 – 2008 21 January Gareth Thomas Copenhagen, Meetings with the Danish Government on EU Scheduled £727 2008 MP Denmark Consumer Affairs Parliamentary Under Secretary of State 28 April – 3 Lord Truscott Houston, USA Offshore Technology Conference Scheduled £800 May 2007 3 – 4 June Lord Truscott Lisbon, Portugal Climate Change Conference Scheduled £1,021 2007 10 June Lord Truscott Brussels, High Level Group (HLG) Meeting Scheduled £631 2007 Belgium 15 June Lord Truscott Oslo, Norway North Sea Basin Task Force Meeting Scheduled £746