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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.