To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much was spent by his Department on (a) first class and (b) business flights in the last 12 months. (153172)

For details of the Department's expenditure on travel and subsistence in 2006-07 I refer to the answer to the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) given on 25 July 2007. Of this expenditure, £144,788 was on first class flights and £1,004,269 was on business class flights.

All travel and subsistence is conducted in accordance with the requirements of the Ministerial Code, Travel by Ministers and the Civil Service Management Code.