To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department has spent on (a) conference services and (b) banqueting services in each of the last five years. (274504)

Costs of conference and banqueting services are not easily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

All expenditure on conference and banqueting services has to be incurred in accordance with the principles of Managing Public Money and the Treasury handbook on Regularity and Propriety.