§ Commander Purseyasked the Civil Lord of the Admiralty if he will state the average number of official visits undertaken by Admiralty staff from Bath to the Admiralty, and vice versa, respectively, during the last financial year, and the total annual cost of travelling and subsistence for this purpose.
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§ Mr. C. Ian Orr-EwingI regret that the full information asked for could be extracted from records only with a disproportionate expenditure of time and labour.
From an examination of some 20,000 individual travel warrants and a further number of subsistence claims it has been established that in a typically busy month (October, 1961) 393 official journeys were made from Bath to London and 207 from London to Bath. The total cost of travelling and subsistence was £2,686.