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Departmental Rail Travel

Volume 498: debated on Tuesday 3 November 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much his Department spent on first-class rail travel by its officials in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. (293208)

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.