To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what bookings the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre has arranged at (a) commercial and (b) discounted rates for Whitehall-based Government departments in the last 12 months. (270567)

During the last 12 months the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre arranged 29 bookings from central Government Departments. The policy of the Centre is not to offer discounted rates. All these events were charged at the standard list price.