Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much his Department has spent on Ministerial overseas travel in each of the last fifteen years.

The FCDO fulfils the requirement, established since 2010, for government departments to publish transparency data in line with the Ministerial Code. The full set of FCDO published transparency returns, which include ministerial overseas travel costs (since the department's formation in September 2020), can be found at: FCDO: ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Historic transparency data detailing ministerial overseas travel for the Department for International Development can be found at: DFID ministers' gifts, hospitality travel and meetings with external organisations - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Similarly, ministerial overseas travel data for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office can be found at: FCO ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)