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2007

2008 (up to and including October)

Departmental Marketing

Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the cost was of (a) internet and website design and hosting, (b) print media design and (c) broadcast media for each of his Department's public information campaigns since 1997. [214707]

Caroline Flint: Internet and website design and hosting, print media design and broadcast media for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) public information campaigns since 1997 have been undertaken in-house or contracted out individually by FCO posts overseas and the FCO in London. Information on the total cost incurred is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Departmental Recruitment

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many civil servants in his Department were recruited through the fast stream; and what the average salary of those officials is. [229182]


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Gillian Merron: To collect the information on numbers and average salary of all Foreign and Commonwealth Office staff recruited through the fast stream would incur disproportionate cost. However, statistics on intake into the civil service fast stream as a whole are available, published annually at:

Departmental Visits Abroad

Mr. Keith Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which countries (a) he has visited in his official capacity since June 2007 and (b) his Department's Ministers have visited in their official capacities in the same period; on what dates each such visit took place; and if he will make a statement. [235946]

Gillian Merron: My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has visited the following countries/cities in an official capacity since his appointment in June 2007.


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Date Country/city

2007

18 July

Paris and Berlin

22 to 23 July

Brussels

24 to 27 July

Afghanistan and Pakistan

28 to 30 July

Washington

4 to 7 September

Romania, Turkey, Italy and Spain

7 to 8 September

Portugal

26 to 29 September

New York, USA

14 to 15 October

Luxembourg

18 to 19 October

Lisbon, Portugal

22 to 23 October

New York and Washington, USA

15 November

Bruges

17 to 20 November

Israel, OPTs and Egypt

21 to 23 November

Uganda

26 to 27 November

Annapolis, USA

6 to 7 December

Brussels

10 December

Brussels

13 to 14 December

Brussels

15 to 18 December

Iraq

2008

19 January

Ljubljana

22 January

Berlin

24 to 26 January

Davos, Switzerland

27 to 28 January

Brussels

6 to 11 February

Afghanistan and Bangladesh

18 February

Brussels

23 to 29 February

China

6 March

Brussels

10 March

Brussels

13 to 14 March

Brussels

17 to 19 March

Stockholm, Helsinki and Copenhagen

28 to 29 March

Ljubljana

31 March

Paris

3 to 4 April

Bucharest

17 April

Berlin

19 to 24 April

Pakistan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iraq

13 to 16 May

Turkey

18 to 23 May

New York, Washington and California

28 to 30 May

Stockholm and Oslo

8 to 10 June

Lebanon, Israel and OPTs

12 June

Paris

16 June

Luxembourg

19 to 20 June

Brussels

25 to 28 June

Japan

5 to 10 July

South Africa and Sudan

13 to 14 July

France

22 July

Brussels

13 August

Brussels

19 to 20 August

Brussels and Georgia

27 August

Ukraine

1 September

Brussels

4 to 6 September

Paris and Avignon

11 September

Dublin

15 September

Brussels

24 to 26 September

New York, USA

8 October

Brussels

13 October

Luxembourg

15 to 16 October

Brussels

21 to 23 October

Slovenia and Slovakia

24 to 26 October

China

3 to 4 November

Marseille, France

4 to 5 November

Serbia and Kosovo

10 November

Brussels and Bosnia and Herzegovina


Other FCO Ministers have visited the following countries in an official capacity since their appointments in June 2007.

The Minister of State for Europe

Date Country/city

2007

3 to 4 September

Belgium, the Netherlands and France

15 October

Luxembourg

5 to 6 November

Slovenia

14 to 15 November

Germany and France

29 November

Spain

2008

10 March

Belgium

18 to 20 March

Bosnia and Herzegovina

31 March to 1 April

Turkey

23 to 24 April

Spain and Gibraltar

29 April

Luxembourg

6 to 8 May

Azerbaijan and Georgia

13 to 14 May

Czech Republic

20 to 21 May

Italy

26 May

Belgium

16 June

Luxembourg

30 June to 1 July

Germany

4 to 11 July

USA

16 to 18 September

Hungary, Poland and France



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Date Country/city

2008

8 to 10 October

Cyprus and Greece

27 to 29 October

France and Czech Republic

5 to 7 November

Bulgaria and Croatia

10 November

Belgium

12 to 13 November

Belgium


The Minister of State for Africa, Asia and the UN

Date Country/city

2007

26 to 30 August

China

6 to 7 September

France

9 to 14 September

Sudan

21 September to 2 October

New York, USA

14 to 19 October

Afghanistan

20 to 27 November

Egypt and Uganda

3 December

Germany

2008

16 to 19 January

Japan

27 January to 2 February

Kenya and Ethiopia

13 to 17 February

New York, USA

20 February

France

4 to 5 March

Switzerland

11 to 14 March

Mongolia

14 to 19 April

Beijing, China and New York, USA

2 May

Geneva, Switzerland

13 to 18 May

Thailand, Singapore and Burma

4 to 5 June

Paris, France

24 to 25 June

Geneva, Switzerland and Norway

29 June to 1 July

Egypt

13 to 19 July

Maldives, Sri Lanka, Nepal

1 to 4 September

Zambia

8 to 11 September

Nigeria

19 to 26 September

New York, USA

3 to 5 October

Austria

13 to 18 October

Bangladesh and India

6 to 7 November

Kenya


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