Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on how many occasions a special adviser in his Department accompanied a Minister on an overseas trip since May 2015.
As has been the case under successive Administrations, civil servants, including special advisers, may routinely accompany their Ministers on official visits.
Information relating to Ministers' overseas visits are published on my Department’s website, as part of the Government’s wider transparency agenda.
All ministerial travel is undertaken in accordance with the Ministerial Code.