To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1) if he will list for himself, and for each of the Ministers at his Department, details of (a) the number of visits made in the past month to destinations outside the United Kingdom but within the European Community on official business related to the European Community, (b) the number of visits made to Brussels within the past month on official business related to the European Community and (c) the number of nights spent over the past month away from the United Kingdom on official European Community business;(2) if he will list the number of visits made by officials in his Department during the past month to destinations outside the United Kingdom but within the European Community on official business related to the European Community, the number of visits made by officials in his Department to Brussels within the past month on official business related to the European Community and the number of nights spent by officials in his Department over the past month away from the United Kingdom official European Community business.
The total number of official visits from this Department to other EC countries on Community business in the month of October 1991 was 257, of which 214 were in Brussels. The total number of individual nights spent away at official expense to complete this business was 316. These figures include both Ministers and officials; I regret that they cannot be broken down further without incurring disproportionate expense.