HC Deb 21 July 1980 vol 989 cc85-6W
Mr. English

asked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will give, for each Department of State, and so far as possible for each of their associated public bodies, the cost of foreign travel, including accommodation and subsistence and entertainment by Ministers and civil servants, the cost of shorthand typists and the cost of non-employee advisers, on a similar basis to the categories of Select Committee expenditure included in the Estimates of the House of Commons, Class XIII-A and itemised in the reply of the right hon. Member for Middlesbrough (Mr Bottomley) to the hon. Member for Aberdeen, South (Mr. Sproat) Official Report, 9 July, c. 212.

Mr. Channon

Information in this form is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.