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Lancaster House

Volume 461: debated on Monday 11 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many (a) conferences and events and (b) visitors there were at (i) Lancaster House and (ii) Marlborough House in each of the last five years. (141429)

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) hosted the following conferences/meetings and functions at Lancaster House in the period 2002-06.

Conferences/Meetings

Functions

2002

29

65

2003

23

51

2004

29

64

2005

38

59

2006

27

44

Although the FCO arranges occasional informal tours of Lancaster House no statistics are kept on the number of visitors.

The FCO does not have responsibility for the management of Marlborough House, which is carried out by the Commonwealth Secretariat. No FCO events were hosted there from 2002-06.