Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many awaydays her Department has held for officials in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date; and what the cost was of each such event.

Away days for Department for International Development (DFID) staff are overwhelmingly undertaken on DFID or Other Government Department premises where there is little or no cost involved.

Information on the number of DFID officials attending away days and the costs incurred is not held centrally and precise information is not readily available.