Visits Abroad: Costs

(asked on 17th October 2022) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost was to the public purse of the travel for (a) the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, (b) his specialist advisors and (c) HM Treasury civil servants for the British Airways flight from Washington to Heathrow Airport which departed on Thursday 13 October.


Answered by
Felicity Buchan Portrait
Felicity Buchan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
This question was answered on 20th October 2022

(a) The costs for the former Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng’s travel to Washington DC for IMF Annual Meetings was £8,533.56.

(b) The costs for the former Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng’s one special advisor travel to Washington DC was £4,459.56.

(c) The costs for the four civil servants that accompanied the former Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, to Washington DC was £17,746.58

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