Speeches

Baroness Seccombe – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Seccombe on 2014-03-25.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the breakdown of departmental spending in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on catering, hospitality and refreshments in (1) 2008–09, and (2) 2009–10.

Lord De Mauley

This table sets out the information requested, in respect of Core Defra.

£

2008-09

2009-10

Catering and Hospitality

426,317

545,253

Refreshments

18,574

7,114

The figures for Catering and Hospitality include a subsidy paid to the Department’s providers of in-house catering, hospitality and refreshments. The Department no longer pays such a subsidy.