Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to her Department’s publication of spending over £500 with a Government procurement card, for what purpose payments were made of (a) £3,812.95 to The White Company from 20 October to 11 November 2021, (b) £18,218.36 to Wayfair Stores Ltd between 14 November 2021 and 25 March 2022, (c) £8,190.06 to Chelsom Ltd between 4 and 11 January 2022, (d) £9,988 to the Cotswold Company between 11 January and 1 March 2022 and (e) £ 10721.29 to Ferguson’s Irish Linen between 20 January and 29 March 2022.

The information requested in your 45 questions of 5 September regarding the FCDO's published Government Procurement Card expenditure https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fcdo-government-procurement-card-spending-over-500-june-2022 is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.