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Mr. Tyrie
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on how many occasions between 31 March 2002 and 31 March 2003 (a) departmental and (b) non-departmental special advisers have travelled abroad in an official capacity; what places were visited: and how much each visit cost. [126663]
Mr. Straw
Between 1 April 2002 and 31 March 2003, special advisers in my Department travelled abroad to the following places. The cost for each visit is included. All travel by special advisers is undertaken in accordance with the rules set out in the Ministerial Code, and the Civil Service Management Code.
| Date | |
| Michael Williams | |
| 18 April 2002 | Geneva |
| Flight: RAF | |
| Accommodation: Nil | |
| Subsistence: £22.88 | |
| Total: £22.88 | |
| Date | |
| 26–28 April 2002 | Kosovo |
| Flight: £1,227.40 | |
| Accommodation: £87.56 | |
| Subsistence: £63.92 | |
| Total: £1,378.88 | |
| 14–16 May 2002 | China |
| Flight: £3,415.50 | |
| Train: £233 | |
| Accommodation: £183.24 | |
| Subsistence £391.35 | |
| Total: £4,223.09 | |
| 27–29 May 2002 | Berlin, Pakistan, India |
| Flight: Charter | |
| Accommodation: £136.30 | |
| Subsistence: £36.88 | |
| Total: £173.18 | |
| 13–21 July 2002 | China, Japan, Hong Kong, India |
| Flight: £2,464.40 | |
| Accommodation: £470.57 | |
| Subsistence: £228.51 | |
| Total: £3,163.48 | |
| 10–16 September 2002 | New York |
| Flight: £2,448.30 | |
| Accommodation: £1,414.17 | |
| Subsistence: £335.91 | |
| Total: £4,198.38 | |
| 7–10 October 2002 | Paris, Cairo, Amman, Kuwait, Tehran |
| Flight: Charter | |
| Accommodation: Official residences | |
| Subsistence: £59.81 | |
| Total: £59.81 | |
| 5–6 November 2002 | Belgrade, Pristina, Sarajevo |
| Flight: RAF | |
| Accommodation: £95.41 | |
| Subsistence: £29.04 | |
| Total: £124.45 | |
| 1–4 December 2002 | Tokyo |
| Flight: £2,943.10 | |
| Accommodation: £191.14 | |
| Subsistence: £55.08 | |
| Total: £3,189.32 | |
| 5–6 December 2002 | Copenhagen |
| Flight: £637.10 | |
| Accommodation: £81.67 | |
| Subsistence: £103.67 | |
| Total: £822.44 | |
| 7–11 January 2003 | Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia |
| Flight: £4,844.70 | |
| Accommodation: £82.95 | |
| Subsistence: £94.33 | |
| Total: £5,021.98 | |
| 10–11 March 2003 | Brussels |
| Eurostar: £202.50 | |
| Accommodation: £111.11 | |
| Subsistence: £103.93 | |
| Total: £417.54 | |
| 15 March 2003 | Belgrade |
| Flight: RAF | |
| Accommodation: Nil | |
| Subsistence: Nil | |
| Total: Nil | |
| Ed Owen | |
| 22–23 April 2002 | Valencia |
| Flight: RAF | |
| Accommodation: £98.55 | |
| Subsistence: £45.51 | |
| Total: £144.06 | |
| 3 May 2002 | Gibraltar |
| Flight: RAF | |
| Accommodation: Nil | |
| Subsistence: Nil | |
| Total: Nil | |
| 7–8 May 2002 | Washington |
| Flight: £2,771.70 | |
| Accommodation: £147.42 | |
| Subsistence: £53.15 | |
| Total: £2,972.27 | |
| 27 May 2002 | Berlin |
| Flight (Charter/Commercial): £348.60 | |
| Accommodation: Nil | |
| Subsistence: Nil | |
| Total: £348.60 | |
| Date | |
| 29–30 August 2002 | Helsingborg |
| Flight (RAF/Commercial): £371.44 | |
| Accommodation: £97.49 | |
| Subsistence: £45 | |
| Total: £513.93 | |
| 14–15 October 2002 | Washington, Chicago |
| Flight: £3,584 | |
| Accommodation: £135.72 | |
| Subsistence: £79.51 | |
| Total: £3,799.23 | |
| 2–4 December 2002 | Bonn, Berlin, Ankara. Slovenia |
| Flight: RAF | |
| Accommodation: Ambassador's | |
| Subsistence: £15.38 | |
| Total: £15.38 | |
| 22–23 January 2003 | Washington |
| Flight: £2,594.30 | |
| Accommodation: £110.24 | |
| Subsistence: £48.54 | |
| Total: £2,753.08 |