Department of Health and Social Care: Aviation
(asked on 23rd February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the (a) number and (b) destinations of all domestic flights taken by officials in his Department in each of the last 5 years.
The following table shows expenditure on commercial flights taken by Departmental officials in each of the last five years, along with the destinations. The number of flights relate to the whole trip and in some cases covers several stages.
Destination | Number of flights in 2022 | Number of flights in 2021 | Number of flights in 2020 | Number of flights in 2019 | Number of flights in 2018 |
Belfast | 15 | 2 | 13 | 20 | 17 |
Birmingham | 2 |
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Bristol | 2 | 1 |
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| 1 |
Cardiff |
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| 1 |
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Edinburgh | 2 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 18 |
Glasgow | 2 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 5 |
Guernsey |
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| 3 |
Leeds |
| 1 |
| 1 | 2 |
London | 15 | 20 | 8 | 39 | 31 |
Manchester |
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| 1 |
| 1 |
Newcastle |
| 1 |
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Newquay |
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| 1 |
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Norwich |
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| 1 |
Southampton |
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| 3 | 1 |
Total number in year | 38 | 35 | 34 | 91 | 80 |
We have not provided details of Ministerial spend as this is published quarterly on GOV.UK and available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-overseas-travel-and-meetings