HC Deb 25 April 1988 vol 132 cc42-3W
Mr. Tony Banks

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will state the total costs incurred by his Department on foreign travel during the financial year 1987-88 identified by(a) ministerial travel and (b) travel abroad by civil servants.

Mr. Donald Thompson

[holding answer 22 April 1988]: Accounts for the financial year 1987–88 have yet to be finalised, but provisional figures indicate that the total costs incurred by my Department on foreign travel, including related subsistence., were as follows:

£
Ministerial travel (including civil servants in Ministers' offices whose costs cannot be separately identified) 106,265
Travel by civil servants 1,125,293
Total: 1,231,558

Of the total, travel costs on European Community business, not including subsistence, accounted for £480,058, the bulk of which is recoverable from Community funds.