Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 18 October to Question 60980 on Spain: Visits Abroad, whether the restaurant meal at La Penela, Madrid purchased with one of his Department’s electronic purchasing cards on 28 June 2022, was included in the declared costs of his predecessor’s visit to Spain from 28 to 30 June 2022.

All FCDO transparency and freedom of information releases are published on gov.uk. Transparency data has been published in this way since 2009/2010. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/letter-from-the-prime-minister-on-government-transparency-and-open-data.

It is standard practice across government to publish total overseas travel cost figures for Ministers. These can be found in our published Quarterly Transparency Returns.