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Departmental Travel

Volume 506: debated on Monday 1 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the cost to the public purse of international travel undertaken by his Department has been since May 2007. (318009)

From information drawn from the core Department's central booking system, the cost of international travel, which includes air, rail and hotels, is as follows:

£

2007-08

2,130,227

2008-09

1,602,431

2009-10 (April to November 2009)

1,007,791

The cost of international travel booked outside the central booking services could be determined only at disproportionate cost.