To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his estimate is of the total expenditure by his Department on ministerial travel (a) in the UK and (b) abroad, in each year from 1995–96 to 2002–03 (estimated); and if he will make a statement. [92442]

I refer the hon. Member to the answer provided by my hon. Friend the Member for Paisley South (Douglas Alexander) on 22 January 2003, Official Report, Column 333W.