Sections 3 and 6 and subsequent subsections of the Ministerial Handbook allows the Executive Members to be accompanied by their spouses or an adult family member instead of their spouses in their official journeys abroad at departmental expenses/costs. Yes, the Minister has been accompanied to a Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by her son and daughter (on separate occasions) as per the Ministerial Handbook.
Details of expenses incurred for such trips for the years in question form part of the departmental audited annual reports submitted to Parliament yearly.
All international trips for members of the executive are processed and approved by the State President.
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