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Mr. Greenway
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the occasions on which he and Ministers in his Department have undertaken overseas
| Minister | Dates | Places visited | Purpose of visit |
| Secretary of State and Joyce Quin | 26 May 1997 to 27 May 1997 | Brussels | Justice and Home Affairs Council Meeting |
| Joyce Quin | 9 June 1997 to 11 June 1997 | Prague | Council of Europe Justice Ministers Meeting |
| Lord Williams of Mostyn | 15 September 1997 to 19 September 1997 | Paris, Germany, Oslo | Fact-finding to look at procedures for investigating suspicious deaths, human rights and community sentences |
| Alun Michael | 16 September 1997 to 18 September 1997 | New York | Visit New York Cares Scheme and New York Police |
| Joyce Quin | 17 September 1997 | Paris | Debate at Ecole Nationale d'Administration |
| Joyce Quin | 26 September 1997 to 28 September 1997 | Sienna | Pontignano Conference |
| Secretary of State and Joyce Quin | 9 October 1997 to 10 October 1997 | Luxembourg | Informal Justice and Home Affairs Council |
| Joyce Quin | 20 October 1997 to 21 October 1997 | Strasbourg | Meeting with MEPs prior to UK Presidency |
| Secretary of State | 20 October 1997 to 21 October 1997 | Paris | Meetings with French Interior Minister and Minister of Justice |
| Joyce Quin | 4 November 1997 to 6 November 1997 | Stockholm | Study of tagging and prison organisation |
| Alun Michael | 16 November 1997 to 17 November 1997 | The Hague | To present European Crime Prevention Awards and visit juvenile delinquents computer system and day training centre |
| Joyce Quin | 3 December 1997 to 5 December 1997 | Brussels | Justice and Home Affairs Council |
| Alun Michael | 5 December 1997 to 8 December 1997 | Bosnia | To visit British Police serving in Bosnia |
| Secretary of State | 9 December 1997 to 10 December 1997 | Washington | G8 Meeting on Organised Crime |
| Mike O'Brien | 18 December 1997 to 19 December 1997 | Luxembourg | Conference on European Year Against Racism |
| Mike O'Brien | 4 January 1998 to 14 January 1998 | Pakistan, India, Bangladesh | To observe entry clearance posts |
| Secretary of State | 13 January 1998 to 14 January 1998 | Madrid | Meetings with the Spanish,Minister of the Interior and Minister of Justice |
| Secretary of State | 26 January 1998 | Brussels | Meetings with the European Parliament Civil Liberties Committee, the EPLP and the ELDR |
| Joyce Quin | 28 January 1998 | Brussels | To address the European Presidency Racism and Xenophobia Debate |
| Secretary of State | 4 February 1998 to 6 February 1998 | Washington, USA | Accompanying Prime Minister: Meetings with National Institute of Justice, Baltimore Police Department, Department of Justice and Attorney General Reno |
| Mike O'Brien | 10 February 1998 to 11 February 1998 | Brussels | To attend the 'Lets Kick Racism Out of Football' seminar |
visits in the course of their ministerial duties since 1997; and if he will give details of the purpose and duration of each visit. [67746]
Mr. Straw
Home Office Ministerial visits overseas since 2 May 1997 are listed in the table:
| Minister | Dates | Places visited | Purpose of visit |
| Lord Williams of Mostyn | 15 February 1998 to 16 February 1998 | Paris | To address the OECD Workshop on Global Network Society |
| Joyce Quin | 8 March 1998 to 9 March 1998 | Prague | To discuss EU enlargement |
| Secretary of State and Joyce Quin | 18 March 1998 to 19 March 1998 | Brussels | To attend Justice and Home Affairs Council Meeting |
| Lord Williams of Mostyn | 21 March 1998 to 25 March 1998 | Thailand | To launch a UK funded course on Child Sex Exploitation |
| Joyce Quin | 26 March 1998 | Amsterdam | To address the Dutch Probation Conference |
| Joyce Quin | 16 April 1998 to 17 April 1998 | Warsaw | To discuss EU enlargement |
| Joyce Quin | 21 April 1998 to 22 April 1998 | Vienna | To address the UN Crime Commission |
| Joyce Quin | 28 April 1998 to 1 May 1998 | Budapest | To discuss EU enlargement |
| Secretary of State | 14 May 1998 | Vienna | Meetings with the Austrian Interior Minister and Minister of Justice |
| Lord Williams of Mostyn | 26 May 1998 to 27 May 1998 | Milan | To visit the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM) |
| Secretary of State and Joyce Quin | 27 May 1998 to 29 May 1998 | Brussels | To attend the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting |
| George Howarth | 7 June 1998 to 10 June 1998 | New York | To attend the UN Special Session on Drugs |
| Joyce Quin | 29 June 1998 to 30 June 1998 | Brussels | To address the European Presidency Civil Liberties and Legal Affairs Committee |
| George Howarth | 30 June 1998 | Brussels | To address a meeting of the EU Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs Committees |
| Secretary of State and Kate Hoey | 23 September 1998 to 24 September 1998 | Brussels | To attend Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting |
| Secretary of State | 15 October 1998 to 16 October 1998 | Avignon | To attend and address a seminar on Family Law and Organised Crime |
| Kate Hoey | 28 October 1998 to 30 October 1998 | Vienna | Informal Justice and Home Affairs Council |
| Mike O'Brien | 3 November 1998 to 6 November 1998 | Ethiopia and Nigeria | To attend entry clearance conference and observe entry clearance posts |
| Kate Hoey | 4 November 1998 to 5 November 1998 | Strasbourg | Council of Europe Ministers meeting on tackling organised crime |
| Secretary of State and Kate Honey | 2 December 1998 to 4 December 1998 | Brussels | To attend Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting |
| Kate Hoey | 6 December 1998 to 8 December 1998 | Budapest | Visit to firm up co-operation on organised crime following successful bid for twinning project |
| Secretary of State | 27 January 1999 | Strasbourg | To visit the European Court of Human Rights |