Departmental Travel

Mr. Watson
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish the travel guidelines issued to staff of each of his Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies.

Chris Bryant
The British Council publishes its own travel guidelines which are available at:

http://www.britishcouncil.org/new/freedom-of-information/information-guide/policies/staff-policies/travel-and-expenses/

The other agencies and non-departmental public bodies sponsored by the Department have not published their own travel guidelines. However, the guidelines they use are based on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s own travel guidelines. I have placed a summary of these guidelines in the Library of the House.