Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 26 April 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many Ministers in the government of (a) Bermuda, (b) the British Virgin Islands, (c) the Cayman Islands, (d) the Falkland Islands, (e) Gibraltar, (f) Montserrat, (g) Saint Helena and its dependencies and (h) the Turks and Caicos Islands have visited his Department's offices in London in each of the last three years.
The number of visits to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office conducted by Ministers from the Overseas Territories over the last three calendar years can be broken down as follows. Multiple visits conducted over the course of a calendar year by individual ministers have also been included.
2008 | 2009 | 2010 | |
Bermuda | 1 | 2 | 2 |
British Virgin Islands | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Cayman Islands | 2 | 4 | 3 |
Falkland Islands(1) | 3 | 4 | 6 |
Gibraltar | 4 | 1 | 1 |
Montserrat | 1 | 1 | 1 |
St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha(1) | 3 | 4 | 3 |
Turks and Caicos Islands(2) | 2 | 2 | 0 |
(1) Falkland Islands, St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha do not have Ministers. Visits by their elected representatives have been incorporated in the above table. (2 )Ministerial Government in the Turks and Caicos Islands was suspended on 14 August 2009. |
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