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CONFIDENTIAL
Minutes of the Inter-Departmental Committee for Ministerial Visits Overseas, held on Friday 14 December 1990, Room 229, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1.
Present:
Mr Dell CB
Mr Lucas
Chairman
FCO
Mr Rose
ODA
Miss Hill
MOD
Miss Todd
DH
Mr Miller
Scottish Office
Mr Myers
Mr Dey
Mr Wood
Mr Watts
Mrs Hill
DT DEN DEnv
Treasury
MAFF
Mr Wild
ECGD
DTI
Mr Hoggett
Mr Grey
Minutes Secretary
Secretariat for the BOTB/Department of Trade and Industry, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H OET.
1. Apologies for absence
Apologies had been received from the Department of Education and Science, Northern Ireland Office, Department of Employment and the Welsh Office.
2.
Ministerial Visits
The Committee had before them a revised schedule of Ministerial Visits Overseas, tabled at the meeting, and a letter from the ODA containing its proposals.
The Chairman noted that the Committee focused on those visits taking place in the first six months of the period under review. The schedule would show any visits scheduled for after June 1991 under a section titled "Possible Visits for Further Ahead". In discussion of the schedule the following points were made:
a
Following agreement with ODA the revised schedule to be produced after the meeting would include ODA visits with a significant element of trade promotion.
b Mr Wild commented that Departments should be clear on the availability of ECGD cover for markets when considering which overseas visits might be made.
C Mr McLoughlin's visit to Czechoslovakia, shown on the Schedule as early 1991, was now likely to take place in the April/June period, probably May.