The Foreign and Commonwealth Office spend on first-class travel within the UK was as follows:
Financial year £ 2007-081 10,537.25 2008-09 49,700.00 2009-102 13,225.40 1 January to March. 2 Up to September.
The Hogg Robinson Group took over the travel contract in December 2007 and figures prior to this date are not available.
UK Staff on duty travel are only entitled to first-class rail travel when the journey time is over two hours, all other journeys must be made in standard class.