Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2016 to Question 56629, what the cost to the public purse was of transporting both the UK Chief of Defence Materiel and the Lady Sponsor for the RFA Tiderace to Korea for the naming ceremony for RFA Tiderace on 1 December 2016.

The total cost to the Ministry of Defence of the Lady Sponsor, Mrs Lister and Vice-Admiral Simon Lister, travelling to the naming ceremony of RFA was £4,820.

The Chief of Defence Materiel, now designated the Chief Executive Officer of Defence Equipment and Support, did not attend the ceremony.