Exhibitions

Mr. Yeo
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list events at which her Department and each agency and non-departmental public body for which her Department is responsible have exhibited in each of the last three years, stating for each (a) the purpose of exhibiting, (b) the cost of exhibiting and (c) the number of staff attending for the exhibition. [107626]

Alun Michael
The following is a list of the events at which attendance or an exhibit were commissioned centrally by Defra as part of the Department's publicity programme. This covers the period since the Department's inception in June 2001. The events were commissioned at a cost of £0.5 million in 2001–02 and £1.2 million in 2002–03 to Defra's central publicity budget.The number of staff attending each event is not available and the information for each agency and non-departmental body for which Defra is responsible could be collated only at a disproportionate cost.

Shows 2001–02 Agrivision (National Event) NAG StoneleighPermanent Defra Exhibition Event (continually updated) Brockhole Visitor Centre, Lake District ESA, Cumbria.Beef 2001 Royal Agricultural CollegeAgrivision South of England Agricultural Society, Ardingley, West SussexCrufts Dogs Show NEC BirminghamAgrivision Show Cornwall Wadebridge, CornwallThe Supreme Cat Show, NEC, BirminghamNational Cat Club, Olympia, LondonRoyal Cornwall Show, Wadebridge, CornwallDevon County Show, Westpoint, Clyst St. Mary, ExeterTown & Country Festival NAC, Stoneleigh, WarksTatton Park Show, Tatton Park, CheshireCLA Game Fair, Shuttleworth College, BedfordshireFruit Focus Show, Hadlow College, KentHampton Court Palace Flower Show, Hampton Court, SurreyBBC Gardeners World Live, NEC, BirminghamBath & West Dairy Show, Shepton Mallet, SomersetDaily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, Earl's Court, LondonFMD Information—Mobile Unit visited Houghton, Oakhampton, Barnstaple, Northallerton and RiponCareers Fair—Exhibition—Building Design Centre, Islington

Conferences/seminars 2001–02 Study Group Meeting ConferenceTSE Research Workshop—Durham UniversityPublic Appointments Seminar—NottinghamCareers Seminars, Bromsgrove SchoolEnglish Rural Development Programme Seminar, Bewl Water, Ardingley, Devon and ReadingPlanning and Diversification Seminar—Reading and OxfordPublic Appointments Seminar—Norwich, Abingdon, NottinghamAnti-Microbial Resistance Seminar—Woolfson Theatre, NAG, StoneleighGolden Rules Seminar—Kendal, CumbriaWaste Seminar—QEIIFood and Farming Conference—OxfordMap 'Launch' with Countryside Agency, Portcullis House, WestminsterSEAC Open Meeting Conference QE2 Centre, LondonDeveloping DEFRA Conference, Aston Villa, F.C. BirminghamNational Energy Crop—TDI Victoria Street18 x FMD Recovery Seminars (Nationwide)

Exhibitions/shows 2002–03 Agrivision (Midlands) StaffordPermanent Exhibition–Brockhole Visitor Centre, Lake District ESA, CumbriaSprays and Sprayers 2002, NAG, StoneleighLincolnshire Show, Grange-De-Lincs, LincolnTatton Park Flower Show 2002, Tatton Park, CheshireFruit Focus 2002, East Mailing, KentPig and Poultry Fair, NAC, StoneleighDevon Country, Westpoint, Clyst St. Mary, ExeterGrassland (and MUCK), NAC StoneleighBeef 2002 Woolner, NorthumberlandRoyal Bath and West, Shepton Mallet, SomersetRoyal Cornwall, Wadebridge, CornwallSouth of England, Ardingley, W. SussexCereals 2002, Sleaford, LincsThree Countries Show, Malvern, WorcsEast of England, PeterboroughBBC Gardener's World Live, NEC BirminghamRoyal Norfolk, New Costessey, NorwichHampton Court Flower Show, Hampton CourtGreat Yorkshire, Harrogate, N. YorksCLA Game Fair, Broadlands, Romsey, HampshireNew Forest and Hampshire, Brockenhurst, HampshireRoyal Lancashire, Astley Park, Chorley, LancsNorthumberland Show, Corbridge, NorthumberlandNational Scrapie Plan Stand (Various Locations)Royal Show, NAG, StoneleighGreat Yorkshire Show-HarrogateRoyal Welsh Show, Builth WellsSheep 2002, MalvernThe Royal Smithfield Show–Earls Court LondonSkills City Careers Exhibition, Salford, ManchesterInternational Food and Drink Exhibition Excel, DocklandEuropean Dairy Event, NAC, StoneleighDiscover Dogs, Earls Court, LondonTown & Country Show 2002, NAC, StoneleighThe Supreme Cat Show 2002, NEC BirminghamThe National Cat Club Show, Olympia 2, LondonThe Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, Earls Court

Conferences/seminars/launches 2002–03 8 Regional Events On Sustainable Food and Farming—Government Office Regional ConferencesCareer Fair and Welcome EventsAnnual Report of Sustainable Development, Canal Museum, CamdenAbbots Hall Farm, (Agri-Environment Schemes)—ESA's Reintroduction of Grazing on the Coastline, Great and Little Wagborough, KentWildlife Crimes UnitMarine Stewardship Event, National Maritime MuseumLaunch of New Atlas of British and Irish Flora, Kew GardensCommunity Renewable Initiative WorkshopDefra Hearings on Hunting with DogsOECD Launch, Room 808, Nobel HousePublic Appointments Seminars, Scunthorpe, Leeds. Greenwich, Tyneside and University of KentScientific Advisers Presentations, Horseguards Hotel and Nobel HouseBritish Equine Event 2002, NAC, StoneleighSustainability In Public ServiceSustainable Development Events QEII Centre, LondonBio Energy ConferenceFlood and Coastal Management Conference, Keele UniversityCountryside Stewardship Campaign, 10th Anniversary Conference—Kew GardensNoise Forum Conference, Chartered Institute Environmental Health, WaterlooCreating the Future 2002, Central Hall, Westminster