To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what his Department's expenditure was on foreign travel including accommodation in (a) 1996-97 and (b) 2005-06. (114036)

DTI expenditure on foreign travel in 2005-06 was £5,601,629.

Details of foreign travel expenditure for 1996-97 are not stored electronically and it would entail disproportionate cost to provide that data.