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FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE QUARTERLY INFORMATION 1 January to 31 March 2013 GIFTS GIVEN OVER £140 Rt Hon William Hague, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Date gift given To Gift Value (over £140) None Alistair Burt, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Date gift given To Gift Value (over £140) n/a Senior Minister of State, Rt Hon Baroness Warsi Date gift given To Gift Value (over £140) n/a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Mark Simmonds MP Date gift given To Gift Value (over £140) N/A Minister of State, Rt Hon David Lidington MP Date gift given To Gift Value (over £140) N/A Rt. Hon. Hugo Swire MP, Minister of State (from 4 September 2012) Date gift given To Gift Value (over £140) N/A GIFTS RECEIVED OVER £140 Rt Hon William Hague, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Date gift From Gift Value Outcome received January Lebanese PM, Harrods gift box Over £140 Nijab Mikati Used for official entertainment and donated to charity Alistair Burt, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Date gift From Gift Value Outcome received n/a Senior Minister of State, Rt Hon Baroness Warsi Date gift From Gift Value Outcome received n/a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Mark Simmonds MP Date gift From Gift Value Outcome received N/A Minister of State, Rt Hon David Lidington MP Date gift From Gift Value Outcome received N/A Rt Hon Hugo Swire MP, Minister of State Date gift From Gift Value Outcome received N/A HOSPITALITY RECEIVED Rt Hon William Hague, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Date of Name of organisation Type of hospitality received hospitality January Rupert Murdoch (News Dinner Corp) Alistair Burt, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Date of Name of organisation Type of hospitality received hospitality February Royal Commonwealth Breakfast Society Senior Minister of State, Rt Hon Baroness Warsi Date of Name of organisation Type of hospitality received hospitality January Global Leadership Dinner Forum hosted by Shabir Randeree CBE January MAMA * Dinner February Daily Mail / Sun Lunch February Financial Times Lunch March Lynton Crosby, CTF Lunch Partners March Independent / Mail Lunch *DCLG event Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Mark Simmonds MP Date of Name of organisation Type of hospitality received hospitality March GlaxoSmithKline Light buffet supper March Standard Chartered Working breakfast Rt. Hon. Hugo Swire MP, Minister of State Date of Name of organisation Type of hospitality received hospitality February Samsung Dinner. February The 48 Group Club Dinner (“Icebreakers”) * March Conservative Home. Lunch. ‘Does not normally include attendance at functions hosted by HM Government; ‘diplomatic’ functions in the UK or abroad, hosted by overseas governments; minor refreshments at meetings, receptions, conferences, and seminars; and offers of hospitality which were declined. * indicates if accompanied by spouse/partner or other family member or friend.’ Minister of State, Rt Hon David Lidington MP Date of Name of organisation Type of hospitality received hospitality January British Services Lunch Association January The Guardian, The Lunch Observer March Siemens AG (Munich) Breakfast MINISTERS‟ OVERSEAS TRAVEL * indicates if accompanied by spouse/partner or other family member or friend. Rt Hon William Hague, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Date(s) Destination Purpose of „Scheduled‟ Number of Total cost of trip trip „No 32 (The officials including travel Royal) accompanying and Squadron‟ Minister, where accommodation of or „other non-scheduled Minister only RAF‟ or travel is used „Chartered‟ or „Eurostar‟ 14-16 Auckland & Official Visit Scheduled £5,569 January Christchurch, New Zealand; Sydney & Perth, UK/Australia Australia Ministerial 27-29 Washington Official Visit Scheduled * £3,294 January DC, United States 31 Brussels, Foreign No 32 (The 3 £436 January Belgium Affairs Royal) Council Squadron 18-21 Brussels, Foreign No 32 (The 7 £8,558 February Belgium; Affairs Royal) Chisinau, Council; Squadron Moldova; Official Visits Doha, Qatar; Beirut, Lebanon 11-12 Paris, France Friends of Eurostar £490 February Libya 27-28 Rome, Italy Friends of Scheduled £985 February Syria 3-4 Accra, Official Visits Scheduled 6 £14,331 March Ghana; and Bamako, Mali No 32 (The Royal) Squadron 11 March Brussels, Foreign No 32 (The 4 £398 Belgium Affairs Royal) Council Squadron 22-23 Dublin, GYMNICH No 32 (The 4 * £673 March Ireland Royal) Squadron 24-27 Kigali, Official Visits Scheduled & 11 £18,137 March Rwanda; No 32 (The Goma & Royal) Kinshasa, Squadron DRC 14-16 Auckland & Official Visit Scheduled £5,569 January Christchurch, New Zealand; Sydney & Perth, UK/Australia Australia Ministerial 27-29 Washington Official Visit Scheduled * £3,294 January DC, United States Alistair Burt, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Date(s) of Destination Purpose of „Scheduled‟ Number of Total cost trip trip „No 32 (The officials including Royal) accompanying travel and Squadron‟ Minister, where accommodatio or „other non-scheduled n of Minister RAF‟ or travel is used only „Chartered‟ or „Eurostar‟ 30 Jan – 02 Colombo and Bilateral visit scheduled N/A £2,999.59 Feb Keppapilavu, Sri Lanka Male, the Bilateral visit Maldives 10-14 Feb Muscat, Bilateral visit scheduled N/A £3,183.79 Oman Baghdad and Bilateral visit Erbil, Iraq 24-25 Feb Victoria, Opening of scheduled N/A £4,021.44 Seychelles Regional Anti-Piracy Prosecutions and Intelligence Co-ordination Centre (RAPPICC) 03-04 Mar Algiers, Bilateral visit scheduled N/A £1,215.48 Algeria 10-16 Mar Manama, UK/Bahrain scheduled N/A £8,563.34 Bahrain, Joint Steering Group Cairo, Egypt Bilateral Visit Riyadh, Royal visit Saudi Arabia 19-20 Mar New York, ATT scheduled N/A £2,684.89 USA Conference 27 Mar Paris, France MEPP/Syria Eurostar N/A £345.00 meetings Senior Minister of State, Rt Hon Baroness Warsi Date(s) of Destination Purpose of „Scheduled‟ Number of Total cost trip trip „No 32 (The officials including travel Royal) accompanying and Squadron‟ Minister, where accommodation or „other non-scheduled of Minister only RAF‟ or travel is used „Chartered‟ or „Eurostar‟ 13-15 New York Official FCO Scheduled £2795.19 January business 2013 5-8 Cairo Official FCO Scheduled £1050.49 February business 2013 17-21 Dhaka Official FCO Scheduled £2244.92 February business 24 Geneva Official FCO Scheduled £159.11 February business 2013 3-7 March Kabul Official FCO Scheduled £3814.32 2013 business 18-19 Rome DCLG Scheduled £1128.69* (added March Business to list on 24 Sept 2013 2013) Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Mark Simmonds MP Date(s) Destination Purpose „No 32 (The Number of Total cost of trip of trip Royal) officials including travel, Squadron‟ accompanying and or „other Minister, accommodation RAF‟ or where non- of Minister only „Charter‟ or scheduled „Eurostar‟ travel is used 06.01.13 Ghana (Accra) Scheduled £3320.59 14.01.13 United Arab Scheduled £2452.69 Emirates (Abu Dhabi) 23.01.13 Ethiopia (Addis Attend AU Scheduled £1000.50 Ababa) Summit 29.01.13 Kuwait (Kuwait Scheduled £5385 City)/Qatar (Doha) 06.02.13 Norway (Oslo) Scheduled £243.60 10.02.13 Ethiopia (Addis Scheduled £3023.29 Ababa)/Djibouti (Djibouti) 26.02.13 Nigeria (Abuja and Scheduled £5352.59 Lagos) 06.03.13 France (Paris) Scheduled £272 10.03.13 Botswana Scheduled £8273.18 (Gaborone)/Malawi (Lilongwe)/S Africa (Johannesburg) Lesotho (Maseru)/ Mozambique (Maputo)/Tanzania (Dar Es Salaam) Minister of State, Rt Hon David Lidington MP Date(s) of Destination Purpose of „Scheduled‟ Number of Total cost trip trip „No 32 (The officials including travel Royal) accompanying and Squadron‟ Minister, where accommodation of or „other non-scheduled Minister only RAF‟ or travel is used „Chartered‟ or „Eurostar‟ 14-15 Berlin, Meeting of Scheduled N/A £240.55 January Germany the European Affairs Sub- Committee 17 Brussels, Foreign Scheduled N/A £342.05 January Belgium Affairs and Eurostar Committee 4-5 Brussels, General Scheduled N/A £402.15 February Belgium and Affairs and Eurostar The Hague, Committee Rail and Netherlands and Scheduled Bilateral visit 26-27 Moscow, Bilateral visit Scheduled N/A £1139.00 February Russia and Brussels, General Scheduled Belgium Affairs and Eurostar Council 11-14 Brussels, General Scheduled N/A £549.95 March Belgiuim; Affairs Bucharest, Council and Romania Bilateral visit and Munich, Germany 19-21 Helsinki, Bilateral visits Scheduled N/A £535.27 March Finland and Copenhage n, Denmark Rt. Hon. Hugo Swire MP, Minister of State Date(s) Destination Purpose of „Scheduled‟ Number of Total cost of trip trip „No 32 (The officials including travel Royal) accompanying and Squadron‟ Minister, where accommodation of or „other non-scheduled Minister only RAF‟ or travel is used „Chartered‟ or „Eurostar‟ 13-18 Tokyo - Bilateral Visit Scheduled £3,257.39 January Japan 2013 23 Santiago - Bilateral Visit Scheduled £7,218.04 January Chile 2013 17-26 New Delhi- Bilateral visit Chartered £8,076.00 February India and with PM and 2013 Seoul – South Korea Scheduled – March Ahmedabad/ Bilateral visit Scheduled £3,309.09 2013 Gujarat - India MEETINGS WITH EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS (INCLUDING MEETINGS WITH NEWSPAPER AND OTHER MEDIA PROPRIETORS, EDITORS AND SENIOR EXECUTIVES Rt Hon William Hague, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Date of Name of External Organisation Purpose of Meeting Meeting February DLA Piper Discussion of International Business environment March Multinational Chairman‟s Group (Rio Regular Biannual Tinto/Vodafone/BP/HSBC/BAe/GSK)