Departmental Official Hospitality

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department spent on Ministerial hospitality in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices. (241243)

The information is available is in the following table.

*Amount spent on ministerial hospitality per financial year expressed in current prices*
	£
2004-05	10,203.74
2005-06	22,993.84
2006-07	41,583.06
2007-08	18,460.30

All spending on official entertainment is made in accordance with the principles set out in Managing Public Money.

Volume 485: debated on Monday 15 December 2008