Department for International Trade: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

(asked on 12th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to her Department’s publication of electronic purchasing card spending over £500 for July 2022, where was the hotel accommodation on which £63,300 was spent on 27 July 2022; for which individuals was that accommodation purchased; and what was the purpose of their stay at that hotel.


Answered by
Nigel Huddleston Portrait
Nigel Huddleston
Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 20th December 2022

This hotel booking was for Department for International Trade staff involved with delivering the UK House Business Programme at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games over a 16-night period. 422 rooms were booked at a cost of £150 per night inc breakfast. UK House was a key component of the Commonwealth Games Business and Tourism Programme which has to date recorded over £13m of export business for UK companies.

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