Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his Department’s publication of spending over £500 with a Government procurement card in June 2022, what the (a) purpose of, (b) location of and (c) guest list was for the event for which Camm and Hooper were paid £53,445.36 on 27 June 2022.

This was the largest UK-Mozambique event hosted to date and was attended by a range of key stakeholders from the UK and Mozambique business community. The event promoted the UK as a key business market. Expenditure was subject to normal FCDO controls and an appropriate use of public money.

We are not releasing the guest lists for these events given these contain personal data of third parties and release would therefore be contrary to our obligations under UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.