Departmental Visits Abroad
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
David Simpson (Upper Bann, DUP)
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much his Department spent on overnight accommodation for (a) Ministers and (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years.
Chris Bryant (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Rhondda, Labour)
This information is not held centrally, and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. Travel by Ministers and civil servants is undertaken in accordance with the Ministerial Code and the Civil Service Management Code respectively.