Departmental Official Hospitality

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will publish a detailed breakdown of his Department's expenditure on entertainment in each of the last 12 months. (321398)

[holding answer 9 March 2010]: This Department spent the following amounts on entertainment from June 2009, when the Department was created:

	£
June 2009	118,577
July 2009	114,972
August 2009	69,109
September 2009	79,465
October 2009	118,300
November 2009	148,950
December 2009	26,256
January 2010	114,120
February 2010	100,378

A further breakdown could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Volume 507: debated on Tuesday 16 March 2010