Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the data on Ministerial travel, October to December 2022, last updated by his Department on 3 April 2023, how much of the £10,379.20 cost for a visit by the former Minister for the Americas and the Overseas Territories to Jamaica and the Turks and Caicos Islands from 24 to 28 October 2022 was used for flights.

A total of £9572.08 and $299.50 was used for flights by the former Minister for the Americas and Overseas Territories to Jamaica and the Turks and Caicos Islands. Foreign travel is a vital part of diplomacy. It is in the national interest that the Foreign Secretary, and other Ministers travel abroad to pursue UK interests, developing international relationships through closer economic, security and development ties. This has been the case under successive administrations of all parties.