Departments: Trade Unions

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many meetings (a) she and (b) her Department's Ministers held with trade union representatives in 2006. (128767)

During 2006 (a) I held two meetings with trade union representatives; (b) other Ministers in my Department held 13 meetings with trade union representatives, as set out in the following table.

	Number
Lord Falconer	¹5
Baroness Ashton	¹1
Vera Baird	0
Bridget Prentice	¹10
¹ Two meetings with union representatives were held jointly by Lord Falconer and Bridget Prentice and one jointly by Lord Falconer and Baroness Ashton.

Volume 458: debated on Monday 26 March 2007