Departmental Rail Travel Mike Penning To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the cost to his Department was of travel by train by its staff in each year since 1997. Mr. Thomas DFID’s expenditure on rail travel for each year from 2003-04 is detailed in the following table. To provide information for years prior to this would incur disproportionate cost. ------------------------------------------- |Financial year|Total rail expenditure (£)| ------------------------------------------- |2003-04 |339,132 | ------------------------------------------- |2004-05 |419,056 | ------------------------------------------- |2005-06 |421,720 | ------------------------------------------- |2006-07 |441,823 | ------------------------------------------- |2007-08 |450,570 | -------------------------------------------