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Ministerial Duties

Mr. Yeo: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport which (a) museums, (b) theatres, (c) art galleries and (d) sporting events (i) she and (ii) other Ministers in her Department have visited in an official capacity since 8 June; and what was the (1) purpose and (2) date of each visit. [21377]

Tessa Jowell [holding answer 6 December 2001]: The information requested is shown in the following table. Visits to such events allow Ministers to see developments in their sector at first hand and demonstrate our support for such projects and initiatives. These are, of course, in addition to visits made in a private capacity or for party reasons.

Date	Minister	Event	Event type
12 June 2001	Secretary of State	"Boris Gudunov" at the Riverside Studios	Theatre
13 June 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Opening of Hideo Furuta's Sculpture in the Park Exhibition	Art Gallery
18 June 2001	Secretary of State and Minister of State for the Arts	Vermeer Exhibition at the National Gallery	Art Gallery
19 June 2001	Minister of State for Sport	Pakistan v Australia One Day Cricket International	Sporting Event
19 June 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	BP Portrait awards at National Portrait Gallery	Art Gallery
21 June 2001	Secretary of State	"My Fair Lady" at the Royal National Theatre	Theatre
25 June 2001	Secretary of State	Tour of Brooklands Museum	Museum
25 June 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Tate Britain—tour of the new galleries (work in progress)	Art Gallery
26 June 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Opening of Ingres to Matisse: Masterpieces of French Painting Exhibition at Royal Academy	Art Gallery
30 June 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Lawn Tennis Championships, Wimbledon	Sporting Event
5 July 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Rachel Whiteread Exhibition at Serpentine Gallery	Art Gallery
5 July 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	"Lady Macbeth" at English National Opera	Theatre
7 July 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Lawn Tennis Championships, Wimbledon	Sporting Event
8 July 2001	Minister of State for Sport	Lawn Tennis Championships, Wimbledon	Sporting Event
10 July 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Reception to celebrate the completion of the Everyman Millennium Commission Library at British Museum	Museum
11 July 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Royal Ballet School Performance at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House	Theatre
12 July 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Launch of the Theatre 2001 conference report at Prince of Wales Theatre	Theatre
12 July 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	"Un Giorno di Regno" at Buxton Festival Opening Night	Theatre
12 July 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Tour of Somerset House	Art Gallery
15 July 2001	Minister of State for Sport	Formula One Grand Prix	Sporting Event
17 July 2001	Secretary of State	Predators Exhibition at Natural History Museum	Museum
17 July 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	"Wabi-Sabi" Exhibition of Japanese jewellery, metal and textiles at Contemporary Applied Arts	Art Gallery
17 July 2001	Minister of State for Sport	European Cadet Boxing Championships	Sporting Event
22 July 2001	Minister of State for Sport	130 Open Golf Championships	Sporting Event
31 July 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Tour of National Maritime Museum, Greenwich	Museum
31 July 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Launch of "Priestley—Making Time and Space for Theatre" at Criterion Theatre	Theatre
31 July 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	BBC Proms 14 at the Royal Albert Hall	Theatre
1 August 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	"The Shape of Things" at the Almeida Theatre, Kings Cross	Theatre
3–7 August 2001	Minister of State for Sport	World Athletics Championships	Sporting Event
7 August 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Visit to Howard Hodgkin Exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery	Art Gallery
8 August 2001	Secretary of State	"The Winter's Tale" at Royal National Theatre	Theatre
9 August 2001	Secretary of State	"Twelfth Night" at Royal Shakespeare Theatre	Theatre
15 August 2001	Secretary of State	Howard Hodgkin Exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery	Art Gallery
16 August 2001	Secretary of State	BBC Proms—Beethoven Fidelio at Royal Albert Hall	Theatre
19 August 2001	Secretary of State	BBC Proms—Dvorak Cello Concerto at the Royal Albert Hall	Theatre
28 August 2001	Secretary of State	"Hamlet" at Young Vic	Theatre
28 August 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Theatre's Kids Week—Playhouse Theatre	Theatre
28 August 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	"The Tragedy of Hamlet" at the Young Vic	Theatre
29 August 2001	Minister of State for Sport	British Amputee Open Golf Championships 2001	Sporting Event
1 September 2001	Minister of State for Sport	Germany v England World Cup Qualifier	Sporting Event
5 September 2001	Minister of State for Sport	England v Albania World Cup Qualifier	Sporting Event
5 September 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	"Swan Lake" at Sadler's Wells	Theatre
9 September 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Tour of the exhibition at Jewish Museum, Berlin	Museum
9 September 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Concert by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Philharmonic Hall, Berlin-Tiergarten	Theatre
10 September 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Tour of Volksbuhne Theatre, Berlin	Theatre
11 September 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	"All My Sons" at the Lyttelton Theatre	Theatre
12 September 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Jerwood Applied Arts Prize at Crafts Council Gallery	Art Gallery
13 September 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Opening of Julian Stair Exhibition at Contemporary Applied Arts	Art Gallery
14 September 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	BBC Proms 72, at the Royal Albert Hall	Theatre
15 September 2001	Secretary of State	Last Night of the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall	Theatre
15 September 2001	Minister of State for Sport	St. Leger Horserace	Sporting Event
18 September 2001	Minister of State for Sport	Stockport County v Sheffield United	Sporting Event
19 September 2001	Secretary of State	Rembrandt's Women at Royal Academy of Arts	Art Gallery
25 September 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Opening of new Collections Centre, Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester	Museum
25 September 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Visit to the People's History Museum (part of the National Museum of Labour History)	Museum
28 September 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Visit to the Rose Theatre excavation exhibition site	Theatre
4 October 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Opening of the Japan 2001 "Facts of Life" exhibition at the Hayward Gallery	Art Gallery
5 October 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	"Rigoletto" at the Royal Opera House	Theatre
6 October 2001	Minister of State for Sport	England v Greece Word Cup Qualifier	Sporting Event
8 October 2001	Secretary of State	Opening of Robin Howard Dance Theatre	Theatre
8 October 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Opening of the Paul Robeson Exhibition at the Theatre Museum, Covent Garden	Museum
9 October 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	"Leonore" at Sadler's Wells	Theatre
10 October 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Tour of Crafts Council	Art Gallery
10 October 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Opening of Exhibition of early Indian photography at Brunei Gallery, London School of Oriental and African Studies	Art Gallery
12 October 2001	Secretary of State	"Leonore" at Sadler's Wells Theatre	Theatre
13 October 2001	Secretary of State	"Julius Caesar" at Royal Shakespeare Theatre	Theatre
13 October 2001	Secretary of State	Pisanello: Painter to the Renaissance Court Exhibition at National Gallery	Art Gallery
16 October 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Opening of the "Radical Fashion" Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum	Museum
17 October 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Design Conference at Imperial War Museum	Museum
17 October 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Opening of "Art on The Line" Exhibition at Courtauld Institute Gallery	Art Gallery
22 October 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Visit to "The Dig" project at the Museum of London.	Museum
23 October 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Pisanello: Painter to the Renaissance Court Exhibition at the National Gallery	Art Gallery
24 October 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Visit to the Conservation Centre at National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside	Museum
25 October 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Visit to the Science Museum	Museum
25 October 2001	Secretary of State	Exposed: The Victorian Nude Exhibition at Tate Britain	Art Gallery
25 October 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Preview of Linbury Galleries at Tate Britain and the inaugural exhibition 'Exposed: The Victorian Nude'	Art Gallery
30 October 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Paris/Barcelone: de Gaudi a Miro Exhibition at Grand Palais, Paris	Art Gallery
31 October 2001	Secretary of State	Opening of London Transport Museum Learning Centre	Museum
1 November 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Visit to ENO London Colliseum	Theatre
4 November 2001	Minister of State for Sport	BT Swimming National Short Course Championships 2001	Sporting Event
5 November 2001	Secretary of State	Music for Youth Schools Prom at Royal Albert Hall	Theatre
7 November 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Schools Prom, Royal Albert Hall	Theatre
8 November 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Concert at the Royal College of Music	Theatre
9 November 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Linbury Biennial Prizes for Stage Design at National Theatre	Theatre
10 November 2001	Minister of State for Sport	England v Sweden	Sporting Event
13 November 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Visit to Wakefield Museum	Museum
13 November 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Visit to Magna Centre	Museum
13 November 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	"Boy Gets Girl" at the Royal Court Theatre	Theatre
15 November 2001	Minister for Tourism, Film and Broadcasting	National Film Theatre	Theatre
16 November 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Tour of Millennium Point	Museum
19 November 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Opening of British Galleries 1500–1900 at Victoria and Albert Museum	Museum
20 November 2001	Secretary of State	Opening of British Galleries 1500–1900 at Victoria and Albert Museum	Museum
22 November 2001	Secretary of State	"Switzerland Lights Up Tate Modern" at Tate Modern	Art Gallery
25 November 2001	Secretary of State	Shakespeare Schools Drama Festival Showcase at Duke of York's Theatre	Theatre
26 November 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Tour of the British Museum	Museum
30 November 2001	Minister of State for the Arts	Visit to the National Gallery.	Art Gallery
5 December 2001	Minister of State for Sport	West Ham United v Aston Villa	Sporting Event

11 Dec 2001 : Column: 751W

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