Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much her Department spent on first class train travel for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in (i) 2020, (i) 2021 and (iii) 2022.

There was no first class train travel by Departmental Ministers in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Expenditure on Ministerial commercial travel is published quarterly on GOV.UK, which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications#2022

The following table shows the cost of first class train travel taken by civil servants in each year since 2020.