To ask the Secretary of State for Forekgn and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list all visits of Government Ministers and officials to Romania since 1979.
The following Government Ministers and senior officials have visited Romania since 1979:
| Minister or official | |
| 1979 | |
| 13–15 February | Sir Reginald Hibbert, Deputy Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. |
| 1980 | |
| 12–14 March | Lord Carrington, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. |
| 13–17 October | Mr. Cecil Parkinson, Secretary of State for Trade. |
| 1981 | None |
| 1982 | |
| 12–14 January | Sir Antony Acland, Permanent Under-Secretary of State Designate at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. |
| 29 September-3 October | Mr. Malcolm Rifkind, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. |
| 1983 | None |
| 1984 | |
| 3–6 April | Mr. Peter Corley, Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and Industry (as Chairman of the Romanian-British Joint Commission). |
| 8–12 September | Delegation of the Royal College of Defence Studies, led by Air Vice Marshal B. H. Newton. |
| 16–21 September | Major-General C. N. Thompson, Director of the Military Survey. |
| 15–16 October | Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse, First Sea Lord. |
| 1985 | |
| 8–10 February | Sir Geoffrey Howe, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. |
| 14–18 June | Sir John Burgh, Director General of the British Council. |
| 21–23 October | Mr. Derek Thomas, Political Director of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. |
| 1986 | |
| 21–25 April | Mr. Alistair Hunter, Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and Industry (leading United Kingdom delegation to the 13th Session of United Kingdom-Romania Joint Commission on Economic and Technical Collaboration). |
| Minister or official | |
| 21–23 May | Mr. Timothy Renton, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. |
| 1987 | |
| 1–3 November | Sir Patrick Wright, Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. |
| 1988 | |
| 7–10 March | Mr. David Ratford, Assistant Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. |
| 15–19 April | Mr. Alan Clark, Minister for Trade, Department of Trade and Industry. |
| 14–17 October | Sir Mark Russell, Chief Clerk, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. |
| 1989 | None |
| 1990 | |
| 15–16 January | Mr. William Waldegrave, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. |
| 27 February—1 March | Mr. John Redwood, Minister for Corporate Affairs, Department of Trade and Industry. |
| 27–28 September | Sir David Orr, Chairman, British Council. |
| 7–11 October | Sir Reginald Doyle, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Fire Services. |
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what current measures there are to help the process of economic and political reform in Romania;(2) if he will list all offers of aid made by Her Majesty's Government to Romania in each year since 1979.
No offers of aid were made by Her Majesty's Government to Romania between 1979 and December 1989. Since then we have sent humanitarian aid, bilaterally and through the European Community, totalling some £6·5 million. We have spent or are spending about £190,000 on measures to promote political and economic reform in Romania. We shall also be responsible for a proportion of the cost of an EC programme to aid Romanian children's homes, which has already committed over £9 million. I am arranging for full details to be placed in the Library of the House.