Departmental Visits Abroad

Mr. Weir
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost to his Department of its international travel has been since May 2007.

Mr. Woolas
The expenditure incurred on overseas travel between May 2007 and January 2010 is set out in the table:

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|                             |£000 |
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|Home Office, including UKBA  |9,480|
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|Identity and Passport Service|250  |
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|Criminal Records Bureau      |19   |
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|Total                        |9,749|
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The above numbers include both official and ministerial travel. All travel is undertaken in accordance with the civil service management code and the ministerial code.