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Departmental Expenditure

Volume 467: debated on Monday 19 November 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence at which functions organised by his Department in the last 12 months hospitality costs were incurred; and how much was incurred at each function. (162798)

Information on official entertainment by function is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Expenditure on official entertainment is subject to departmental regulation and compliance with the principles of propriety set out in Managing Public Money and in the Treasury's handbook on Regularity, Propriety and Value for Money.