Transparency data
BIS ministerial travel, January to March 2015
Updated 15 October 2015
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| Minister | Date of Trip | Destination | Purpose | ‘Scheduled’ or No 32 (The Royal) Squadron’ or ‘other RAF’ or ‘Charter’ or ‘Eurostar’ | Number of officials accompanying Ministers (where non-scheduled travel is used) | Total Cost including travel and accommodation of Minister only |
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| Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills and President of the Board of Trade, Rt Hon Vincent Cable MP | 20-Jan | Belgium, Brussels | To attend meetings with Commissioners to outline the UKs priorities primarily on Digital Single Market | Eurostar and Scheduled | Not set | £243 |
| Minister of State (Trade and Investment), Lord Livingston | 08 January – 13 January | India, Ahmedabad, Mumbai | To lead a trade delegation and attend the Vibrant Gujarat Summit, UKIBC Mumbai opening and meet with key investors | Scheduled | Not set | £5,001 |
| Minister of State (Trade and Investment), Lord Livingston | 18 January – 20 January | Latvia, Riga, Sweden, Stockholm | To promote UK Trade and Investment and to meet with Senior Government Ministers | Scheduled | Not set | £774 |
| Minister of State (Trade and Investment), Lord Livingston | 08 February – 14 February | South Africa, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Ghana, Accra | To promote UK Trade and Investment and to meet with Senior Government Ministers | Scheduled | Not set | £6,566 |
| Minister of State (Trade and Investment), Lord Livingston | 17-Feb | Germany, Dusseldorf | Company visit to Siemens in Dusseldorf | Scheduled | Not set | £679 |
| Minister of State (Trade and Investment), Lord Livingston | 22 February – 25 February | Turkey, Istanbul | To lead a Trade Delegation and promote UK Trade and Investment | Scheduled | Not set | £1,118 |
| Minister of State (Trade and Investment), Lord Livingston | 28 February – 04 March | China, Shanghai | To attend the GREAT Festival of Creativity | Scheduled | Not set | £4,163 |
| Minister of State (Trade and Investment), Lord Livingston | 15 March – 18 March | Korea, Seoul | To attend a UK-South Korea JETCO and promote UK Trade and Investment | Scheduled | Not set | £4,730 |
| Minister of State (Trade and Investment), Lord Livingston | 24 March – 25 March | Latvia, Riga | To attend FAC trade Ministers meeting | Scheduled | Not set | £94 |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and Minister for Intellectual Property, Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE | 24 February – 25 February | Denmark, Copenhagen | To attend a Digital Summit | Scheduled | Not set | £242 |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and Minister for Intellectual Property, Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE | 01 March – 02 March | Belgium, Brussels | To represent the UK at the EU Competitiveness Council | Eurostar | Not set | £211 |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and Minister for Intellectual Property, Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE | 17 March – 18 March | Germany, Munich | To visit the European Patent Office to discuss copyright, patents and the Unified Patent Court | Scheduled | Not set | £664 |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and Minister for Intellectual Property, Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE | 25 March – 27 March | Latvia, Riga | To attend the Informal Competitiveness Council | Scheduled | Not set | £560 |
| Minister of State for Business and Enterprise and Energy working jointly with the Department of Energy and Climate Change, Rt Hon Matthew Hancock MP | 21 January – 23 January | Switzerland, Davos | To represent both the Department of Business and the Department of Energy and Climate Change at the World Economic Forum | Charter and Scheduled | Not set | Costs met by No.10 |
| Department of Health, George Freeman MP | 11 January – 15 January | USA, San Francisco, Washington | To promote the UK as a place for pharmaceutical and healthtech companies to invest | Scheduled | Not set | £2,553 |
| Department of Health, George Freeman MP | 25-Feb | Belgium, Brussels | To promote the UK as a place for pharmaceutical and healthtech companies to invest | Eurostar | Not set | £140 |
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