Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the Commonwealth Ministerial meetings to which the Government has sent representatives in each of the last two years. [129478]

Mr Swire, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office: The Government aims to send representatives to all Commonwealth Ministerial meetings. In the last two years, Ministers have attended the following: the Commonwealth Sports Ministers Meeting (2012); the Commonwealth Ministerial Task Force meeting (2012); the Commonwealth Conference of Education Ministers (2012); the Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting (2011 and 2012) and the Commonwealth Law Ministers Meeting (2011).

The Government was also represented by senior officials at the Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting (2011 and 2012); the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting (2011 and 2012) and the Commonwealth Consultative Group on the Environment (2011 and 2012).

The Prime Minister, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the Minister for Trade and Investment, and the then Minister for the Commonwealth attended the 2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and its various side meetings in Perth.

| Hansard