Official Visits
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Jo Johnson (Orpington, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many (a) outgoing official visits by UK Ministers to and (b) incoming visits to the UK by Ministers from each other country there have been since May 2010.
David Lidington (Minister of State (Europe and NATO), Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Aylesbury, Conservative)
As part of HM Government's commitment to transparency each Government Department publishes on a quarterly basis information on Ministers' hospitality, gifts, meetings and overseas travel. Information for Foreign and Commonwealth Office Ministers can be found at:
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/publications-and-documents/transparency-and-data1/hospitality/#Ministers
Ministers from the following countries have made guest of Government visits:
Afghanistan
Angola
Australia
Brazil
Chile
China
Colombia
El Salvador
France
Lebanon
Libya
Malaysia
Malta
Pakistan
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Seychelles
Somalia
Thailand
Turkey
Uruguay
Vietnam
Records are not held centrally of other incoming visits and can therefore not be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.