Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's publication of spending over £500 with a Government procurement card, for how many (a) individuals and (b) nights and in which cities accommodation was purchased at the Four Seasons Hotel on (i) 4 January 2021, (ii) 23 September 2021 and (iii) 8 November 2021; and what the purpose was for each of those stays at those hotels.

(i) The COP26 President, the Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP, three of his Private Office, and the UK COP26 Envoy stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, South Korea for two nights in October 2020 to meet with government ministers, parliamentarians, businesses and international organisations.

(ii) Accommodation was purchased at the Four Seasons Hotel in Amman on 23 September 2021 for the Acting National Security Adviser and two NSA officials for two nights each. The purpose was to attend a UK-Jordan Strategic Dialogue.

(iii) The COP26 President stayed in the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul for two nights accompanied by three members of his Private Office during a trip to South Korea. The purpose of the trip was to meet with senior Korean government ministers, Civil Society private sector organisations in relation to driving forward the COP26 President Designate’s climate priorities ahead of the UK led COP26 Summit in Glasgow.