HC Deb 25 November 1994 vol 250 cc408-9W
Mr. Bayley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much public money will be spent on entertaining, Christmas decorations and other festive activities this Christmas season by her Department and Government agencies answerable to her Department; and of this sum how much will be spent in Ministers' private offices and official residences.

Mr. Sackville

Disaggregrated information of this nature is not available. Any such costs which may arise are covered by the hospitality expenditure of the Department which is published in the annual report, copies of which are in the Library.

Mr. Bayley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many official Christmas cards she and her Ministers intend to send in 1994; how much these cards will cost(a) to buy, (b) to post and (c) in staff time to sign, address and place in envelopes; and if she will place in the Library a sample copy of the official Christmas card she intends to send this year.

Mr. Sackville

Some 2,300 charity Christmas cards, copies of which will be placed in the Library, will be sent at an estimated purchase and postal sum of £1,360.