Culture Media and Sport written question – answered at on 14 December 2004.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the total travel costs to her Department have been for (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials for each year since 1997.
holding answer
All official travel is undertaken in accordance with the rules contained in the Department's staff handbook and all Ministerial travel is undertaken fully in accordance with the rules set out in the Ministerial Code and Travel by Ministers, copies of which are available in the Libraries of the House.
In respect of overseas travel by Ministers, since 1999 the Government has published an annual list of all visits overseas undertaken by Cabinet Ministers costing £500 or more during each financial year. The Government has also published on an annual basis the cost of all Ministers' visits overseas. Copies of the lists are available in the Libraries of the House.
Travel costs of special advisers who accompanied the Ministers overseas are included in the annual list the Overseas Travel by Cabinet Ministers. Other travel costs of special advisers are included in the officials' travel costs on the Department's accounting system and can be disaggregated only at disproportionate cost.
The following table shows expenditure on travel and subsistence by Ministers (domestic only) and officials in the Department from 1997–98 to 2003–04.
Financial year | Ministers T and S (domestic only) | Officials (overseas and domestic T and S) |
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2003–04 | 19,483.31 | 473,483.91 |
2002–03 | 24,719.22 | 479,690.78 |
2001–02 | 17,386.39 | 411,227.86 |
2000–01 | 31,931.38 | 366,112.06 |
1999–2000 | 24,539.59 | 362,767.76 |
1998–99 | 22,913.88 | 252,990.17 |
1997–98 | 11,697.81 | 256,166.64 |
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