Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.

Details of ministerial commercial travel is published quarterly on gov.uk. Please see the link below for the FCDO return. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings#full-publication-update-history

The latest data was published on 14 July with an accompanying Written Ministerial Statement made in both Houses of Parliament on 15 July:

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2022-07-15/debates/2207152000007/GovernmentTransparencyAndAccountability#

Air travel costs for officials in financial year 2020-21 was £3.9m and for financial year 2021-22 was £7.4m. These figures are taken from the FCDO's financial systems and should exclude travel incurred by Ministers, and any non-air travel costs. These figures are for flights taken as part of duty travel; travel taken as part of staff members' overseas allowance packages are excluded as these costs are not split on the system between air travel and other types of travel.