To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much his Department spent on hotel accommodation for (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) civil servants in each of the last five years. (305668)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Putney (Justine Greening) on 22 October 2009, Official Report, column 1642W.

Figures for earlier years and disaggregating for Ministers, special advisers and civil servant could be achieved only at disproportionate cost.