Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on refreshments in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.
The information requested is shown in the following table:
| Subsistence (including refreshments) (£) | Ministerial First-Class Travel (£) | Ministerial Standard Class Travel (£) |
Financial year 2017-18 | 230,667.19 | 0.00 | 9,031.77 |
Financial year 2018-19 | 536,374.28 | 0.00 | 25,149.61 |
Total | 767,041.47 | 0.00 | 34,181.38 |