To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much each of his Department’s (a) non-departmental public bodies and (b) research councils spent on (i) first-class air travel, (ii) first class rail travel, (iii) taxis, (iv) hotel accommodation and (v) other travel and overnight subsistence expenses in each of the last three years. (313293)

The Department does not hold information on its NDPBs’ (which includes the Research Councils) travel and subsistence expenses centrally and such information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.