To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which (a) food and (b) drinks suppliers have been used by his Department in each of the last three years; and how much his Department paid to each such supplier in each of those years. (248385)

The two contracted suppliers of food and drink used by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are as follows:

From 1 December 2008 the contract with Mountain Spring has been terminated.

There is a large difference between spend on Mountain Spring during the 2005-06 period and the subsequent years as there were various suppliers used in 2005-06.

Identifying these suppliers and the amounts spent would incur disproportionate cost.

The figures do not include spend by Government Hospitality, individual departmental spend or spend locally by post overseas, as this could be provided only at disproportionate cost.