Question to the Ministry of Justice:

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

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) does not hold away days. The MoJ does on occasion hold training events outside its main buildings. However, these events are neither recorded nor funded centrally as they would be organised by heads of directorates. Therefore to provide the information requested would incur disproportionate costs as we would be required to contact all directorates and organisations within MoJ and its Arms Length Bodies to produce an accurate figure.