§ Mr. TyrieTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his answer of 5 June 2000,Official Report, column 97W, on Special Advisers, if he will list the destination and the total cost, including travel, accommodation and subsistence allowance, on each of the occasions when departmental or non-departmental special advisers travelled abroad in an official capacity. [135253]
§ Mr. RookerDuring the period 31 March 1999 to 31 March 2000, Special Advisers in this Department travelled on official business to the United States of America and Brussels at a total cost of £2,444.64. The cost of these visits was accounted for in expenditure on Ministers' travel overseas published by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on 28 July 2000,Official Report, column 969W, which for 1999–2000 was £4.6 million compared to £7.9 million for the last year of the previous Administration.