Departmental Expenditure

David Simpson
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs at which functions during the last year hospitality expenditure was incurred by his Department.

Meg Munn
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Minister for Europe on 18 October 2007, Official Report, column 1314W.

Further to that answer, Government Hospitality, Protocol Directorate, managed 199 official functions between November 2006 and October 2007. Of these functions, 58 were hosted by Foreign and Commonwealth Office Ministers or were funded directly by Government Hospitality on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.