Paul Flynn – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Flynn on 2015-10-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the total cost to the public purse was of arrangements for the most recent visits to the UK by the (a) President of the US and (b) President of China.

James Duddridge

The full cost of inward State Visits is borne by a number of different Government Departments.

The cost borne by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the 2011 State Visit by the President of the US was £395,095.

We do not yet have the costs for the 2015 State Visit by the President of China. These will be published on the gov.uk website once available.