Departmental Expenditure

HC Deb 10 May 2004 vol 421 cc11-2W

Mr. Laws

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what his latest estimate is of the amount spent by his Department on official entertainment in each year from 1996–97 to 2004–05. [169104]

Mr. McNulty

The costs of entertainment incurred were:

	£000
1996–97	131
2002–03	124
2003–04	116
1 Department for Transport

For the current-financial year (2004–05) it is forecast that the Department it for Transport's costs will be approximately £15,000.

From 1997–98 to 2001–02 transport formed part of the DETR and DTLR. Transport specific information is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.