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Shipping: Lighthouses

Answer

Fourteen officials of Trinity House, the Northern Lighthouse Board and the Commissioners of Irish Lights attended the International Association of Marine Aids to the Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities Conference in Cape Town in March 2010. The breakdown of the numbers of officials and the costs incurred is:

	Trinity House	Northern Lighthouse Board	Commissioners of Irish Lights
Number attending	6	5	3
Costs:
(a) Flights	£8,034	£1,932	€3,525
(b) Accommodation	£9,325	£2,656	€4,244
(c)Subsistence	£220	£1,328	€442

Two of the Trinity House officials represented all the authorities as members of the joint Research and Radionavigation Directorate and a third attended in his capacity as treasurer of the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation. This expenditure was within the 2009-10 budgets of the authorities which were sanctioned by the Department for Transport.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

1992; 720 c564-5WA

Session

2010-12

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Notes

Answer received between Tuesday 21 September and Monday 27 September 2010.

Subjects

Expenditure South Africa Visits abroad Conferences Commissioners of Irish Lights Northern Lighthouse Board Trinity House International Association of Lighthouse Authorities

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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