Australia: Visits Abroad

(asked on 31st January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, for what reason a decision was made to fund from the public purse her travel on a private jet to Australia on the 20 January 2022; and if she will make a statement.


Answered by
James Cleverly Portrait
James Cleverly
Home Secretary
This question was answered on 8th February 2022

Foreign travel is vital part of diplomacy. The work that ministers do overseas ultimately delivers for the British people. We have three government planes for Government business. They are used by the Prime Minister and Ministers for precisely this purpose. This is standard practice and in the national interest.

In accordance with the Ministerial Code, the FCDO publishes the costs related to all overseas Ministerial travel as part of the regular Cabinet Office Transparency Return https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/minister-data#2020.

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