To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was spent on overnight accommodation by his Department’s civil servants in the last 12 months. (228766)

The Department can provide only partial information on the total expenditure as some transactions have been amalgamated into general travel and subsistence claims and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The figure provided is the total amount spent on individual government procurement cards for the last 12 months up to and including the end of September 2008.

The total amount spent on accommodation was £43,748.