Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many awaydays his Department has held for officials in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date; and what the cost was of each such event.

The Department for Work and Pensions does not have a separate or identifiable account code in departmental finance records to distinguish expenditure on staff away days. Details of such expenditure could be provided only at disproportionate cost.