Departmental Conferences

Mr. Baron
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which conferences held overseas have been attended by civil servants based in his Department in the last three years; and what the cost to the public purse was of such attendance at each conference.

Mr. Kevan Jones
This information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Expenditure on conferences must be incurred in accordance with the principles of the Treasury publications Managing Public Money and Regularity, Propriety and Value for Money.