To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice how much her Department, its predecessor and its agencies paid in travel agencies' fees in each year since 1997. (139911)

It is not possible to list the costs spent on travel agencies’ fees in each year since 1997 without incurring disproportionate costs as the expenditure is not separately identifiable within the Department’s accounts.

All ministerial travel is undertaken in accordance with the rules set out in the ministerial code and ‘Travel by Ministers’, copies of which are available in the Library of the House for the reference of Members. All official travel by civil servants is undertaken in accordance with the requirements of the ‘Civil Service Management Code’, a copy of which is also available in the Library of the House for the reference of Members.