FEBRUARY 2012                          GILES CHICHESTER MEP                                       PROGRAMME

Wednesday 1st   

Brussels

Attend UK Delegation of Conservative MEPs meeting

Attend mini plenary session

Thursday 2nd  

Brussels

Attend mini plenary session

Friday 3rd      

Dorset/Devon

Meeting with Bournemouth Borough Council

Constituency meeting

Saturday 4th    

Devon

Speak at South West Conservatives Conference

Sunday 5th     

Monday 6th    

Brussels

Attend Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) Committee meeting

Chair European Energy Forum (EEF) dinner debate

Tuesday 7th    

Brussels

Attend UK Delegation of Conservative MEPs meeting

Attend European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Group meeting

Wednesday 8th    

Brussels

Attend UK Delegation of Conservative MEPs bureau meeting

Thursday 9th    

London

Friday 10th    

Devon/

Wiltshire

Constituency meeting

Speak at Business Wiltshire dinner

Saturday 11th

Sunday 12th – Tuesday 14th

Oxfordshire

Attend Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme visit to Defence Academy HQ at Shrivenham

Wednesday 15th – Friday 17th

Strasbourg

Attend European Parliament Plenary Session

Attend EURO ACE (European Association of Energy Savings) dinner debate

Saturday 18th

Devon

Constituency meeting

Sunday 19th

Monday 20th

Cornwall

Meeting with constituent

Tuesday 21st

Wednesday 22nd

Thursday 23rd

Somerset

Meeting with constituents

Friday 24th

Devon

Constituency meeting

Saturday 25th

Travel to Johannesburg

Sunday 26th

Johannesburg

Working dinner and briefing with EU Head of Mission

Monday 27th February – Tuesday 28th

Johannesburg

Participate in Inter Parliamentary Meeting of the South Africa Delegation in South Africa

Attend Working dinner with the Head of the EU Delegation to South Africa

Briefing by the EU Delegation

Meetings with EU Member States' Ambassadors, International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Regional Office for East & Southern Africa, Research Analyst, Standard Bank, Institute for Security Studies, representatives of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, Square Kilometre Array (SKA) South Africa, representatives of the South African sugar cane industry

Wednesday 29th February – Friday 2nd March

Cape Town

Meetings with Chairman and members of the National Council of Provinces' Ad-hoc Committee on South Africa's Protection of State information Bill, representatives of the Right2Know campaign on South Africa's Protection of State information Bill

Briefing at the Foundation of Human Rights' Orange Farm Advice Centre and tour

Working dinner on South Africa's Protection of State Information Bill

Attend series of Inter Parliamentary meetings at the South African Parliament/meetings with South African political parties

Attend lunch with EU Consuls.  Depart for UK pm

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