asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will give for the longest and most convenient stated period of time full details of lecture tours and other visits arranged by or in any way assisted by his Department to countries effecting visits of Members of both Houses of Parliament; who participated in such visits; what fees were paid; what expenses were involved; and on what basis the selections were made.
In the period from 1st April 1972 to 31st March 1975 lecture
| Parliamentarian | Country | Date | Fees | Expenses | |||||
| The hon. Member for Portsmouth, North, | |||||||||
| Mr. Judd | … | … | U.S.A | … | … | … | 28th January to 15th February 1973. | Nil | Fares and subsistence. |
| The hon. Member for Berwick and East Lothian, | |||||||||
| Mr. Mackintosh | … | South Africa | … | … | 19th February to 1st March 1973. | Nil | ditto | ||
| Lord Thorneycroft | … | Italy | … | … | … | 26th to 27th February 1973. | Nil | ditto | |
| The hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury, | |||||||||
| Mr. Ridley | … | … | U.S.A | … | … | … | 13th to 28th March 1973. | £41·00 | ditto |
| The rt. hon. Member for Bermondsey, | |||||||||
| Mr. Mellish | … | … | Turkey and Middle East | … | … | … | 23rd April to 4th May 1973. | Nil | ditto |
| Baroness White of Rhymney | … | … | Finland | … | … | … | 10th to 12th August 1973. | Nil | Fares only. |
| The hon. Members for Bridgwater, Exeter, Shoreham, Herts. S., | |||||||||
| Mr. King, | … | … | Canada. | 23rd September to 14th October 1973. | Nil | Fares and subsistence | |||
| Hannam | … | … | … | … | … | ||||
| Mr. Luce | … | … | … | … | … | ||||
| Mr. Parkinson | … | … | … | … | |||||
| Baroness White of Rhymney. | Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland. | 1st to 9th October 1973 | Nil | ditto | |||||
| The hon. Member for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles, | |||||||||
| Mr. Steel | … | U.S.A | … | … | … | 25th November to 9th December 1973. | Nil | ditto | |
| Mr. C. Mayhew | … | Algeria, Lebanon, Arab Republic of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia. | 30th December 1973 to 16th January 1974. | Nil | ditto | ||||
| Lord Denning | … | … | Trinidad, Guyana and Barbados. | 1st to 12 January 1974 | Nil | ditto | |||
| Sir Tufton Beamish (now Lord Chelwood) | … | U.S.A | … | … | … | 17th February to 1st March 1974. | Nil | ditto | |
| The hon. Member for Aldershot, | |||||||||
| Mr. Critchley | … | U.S.A | … | … | … | 8th to 31st March 1974 | £52·23 | ditto | |
| The hon. Member for East Grinstead, | |||||||||
| Mr. Johnson Smith | … | U.S.A | … | … | … | 13th to 17th May 1974 | Nil | ditto | |
| Lord Feather | … | … | Australia, India, Malaysia, Singapore and New Zealand. | 9th November to 8th December 1974 | £75·00 | ditto | |||
| Lord Caradon | … | … | Austria (to East-West Conference). | 12th to 16th November 1974. | Nil | Fares only. | |||
| The hon Members for Greenock and Port Glasgowand Aberdeen, South | |||||||||
| Dr. Mabon | … | ||||||||
| Mr. Sproat | … | ||||||||
| The hon. Member for Berwick and East Lothian, | |||||||||
| Mr. Mackintosh | … | U.S.A. and Canada | … | 19th October to 8th November 1974. | Nil | Fares and subsistence. | |||
| The hon. Member for Hornchurch, | |||||||||
| Mr. Williams | … | … | Canada | … | … | … | 19th February to 6th March 1975. | Nil | ditto |
A certain number of Members of both Houses of Parliament who were making private visits abroad also undertook lec-
Parliamentarian
| Country
| Date
| Fees
| Expenses
| |||||
| The rt. hon. Member for Newham, North-East, Mr. Prentice | … | … | Canada | … | … | … | 24th to 30th September 1972. | Nil | Local travel and subsistence. |
| Lord Garner | … | … | Canada and U.S.A. | … | 28th September to 28th October 1974. | Nil | ditto | ||
| The rt. hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland, Mr. Grimond | … | U.S.A | … | … | … | 21st to 27th October 1973. | Nil | ditto | |
| Lord Barber | … | … | U.S.A | … | … | … | 3rd to 8th October 1974. | Nil | Subsistence only. |
| The rt. hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East, Sir G. Howe | … | Canada | … | … | … | 18th January to 2nd February 1975. | Nil | Local travel and subsistence. | |
Selection of Members of both Houses of Parliament is made from those interested in the question and available at the time. Additionally, during the same three-year period assistance has been given to three parliamentary groups, from a programme for encouraging European links, at a cost of £1,692 as a contribution towards their total visit costs. Visits under these arrangements were made to France in 1973 and to the German Federal Republic and Ireland in 1974. The timings of these visits and the selection of participants were a matter for the groups themselves.