HC Deb 22 July 2004 vol 424 cc598-9W
Mr. Paul Marsden

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each year since 1997 the number of miles flown by each Minister on official departmental business. [181870]

Fiona Mactaggart

Detailed information for all Ministers in respect of UK travel is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, since 1995 the Government have published an annual list of all visits overseas undertaken by Cabinet Ministers costing £500 or more during each financial year. The Government have also published on an annual basis the cost of all Ministers' visits overseas. Copies of the lists are available in the Libraries of the House. These report information reaching back to 1995–96. Information for 2003–04 is currently being assembled and will he published shortly.

All ministerial and civil service travel is undertaken in accordance with the rules set out in the Ministerial Code, Travel by Ministers, and Civil Service Management Code, copies of which are available in the Libraries of the House.

Mr. Beggs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the total cost of air travel between Northern Ireland and Great Britain was for(a) ministers and (b) officials in his Department in the latest year for which figures are available. [182129]

Fiona Mactaggart

Detailed information for all Ministers (and staff) in respect of UK travel is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.