HC Deb 16 December 1994 vol 251 c818W
Mr. Donohoe

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how much has been spent on telephone charges and how many telephone calls have been made by his Department for each of the last five years.

Miss Widdecombe

The Employment Department's charges for telephony for years 1989–94 are shown in the following table:

column 679 which were undertaken by Ministers in his Department and on which they were accompanied by their spouses and paid for at public expense.

Miss Widdecombe

My answer of the 26 October,Official Report, column 679, referred to the attendance of my hon. Friend the then Minister of State and his spouse at a social affairs informal council in Athens to which both had been invited by the Greek presidency. They travelled to Athens on the afternoon of 9 March and returned to London the following day.