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Written question asked by Grant Shapps (Conservative) on Thursday, 19 March 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 23 March 2009. It was answered by Baroness Ussher (Labour) on Tuesday, 16 June 2009 on behalf of the Treasury.

Departmental Training

Question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many (a) staff and (b) Ministerial away days have been organised by his Department in each of the last five years; and what the cost of such events was in each year.
Answer

For details of the cost of away days prior to 2007-08, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 8 October 2007, Official Report, column 220W, to the hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr. Hammond).Disaggregated information on the number of away days held by (a) staff and (b) Ministers is not held centrally and could not be provided within the disproportionate costs threshold.The following table shows total recorded spending on away days in 2007-08, the latest year for which audited figures are available.

2007-08 Treasury away days
£000
Core treasury 211
Group shared services¹ 68
Total 279
¹ HM Treasury, OGC and DMO established a Group Shared Services (GSS) function in 2007-08, including former OGC teams working from locations outside London.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
494 c244W; 266210
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Training Treasury
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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