To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what each gift received by (a) special advisers in his Department and (b) the Council of Economic Advisers declared to his Department in the 2005-06 financial year was; on what date each was given; what the estimated cost was of each; what the reason was for giving each gift; and what the name of the recipient was. (102864)

Gifts recorded as being received by special advisers and the Council of Economic Advisers in 2005-06 were:

tickets to a U2 concert, June 2005;

tickets to Live8, July 2005; and

DVDs, December 2005

In the case of the tickets, donations were made to charity equal to or exceeding the value of the tickets. The DVDs were donated to Oxfam.