Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs staff corporate travel: FOI release

Information requested

For each of the following staff within the Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs’ Private Office:

• Private Secretary (C1);
• Deputy Private Secretary (B3);
• Deputy Private Secretary (B1);
• Assistant Private Secretary;
• Any A4 officials supporting the Cabinet Secretary; and
• The Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs (ministerial inbox),

All corporate travel bookings and purchases made through the Scottish Government corporate travel system (such as the system used for booking official travel using cost centres) from 1 September 2025 to the date of your request.

Response

Date of engagement: 28 September 2025
Location of engagement: Birmingham, UK

Job title	Air	Vehicle hire	Subsistence
Cabinet Secretary	£153.44	n/a	n/a
Private Secretary (C1)	£153.44	£109.46 (shared with Cabinet Secretary)	£18.60 (dinner)

Date of engagement: 19-21 November
Location of engagement: Brussels

Job title	Air	Taxis	Overnight accommodation	Subsistence
Cabinet Secretary	£170.21	n/a	€140.00	€25.00 (dinner) €10.80 (lunch) €17.00 (dinner)
Deputy Private Secretary (B3)	£170.21	€642.50 (shared with Cabinet Secretary)	€140.00	£29.12 (dinner) £5.37 (lunch) €17.00 (dinner)

Note that not all costs are available in British Pounds. The original value in Euros is presented where currency conversion is yet to be performed.

You may wish to know that information substantially of the type you have requested is released regularly by the Scottish Government on its website at Ministerial engagements, travel and gifts - gov.scot. The information published to date covers the period May 2016 to August 2025. Within this collection of documents, the cost and other particulars are published for each domestic journey undertaken by members of the Scottish Cabinet. Headline costs for international journeys undertaken by the Scottish Cabinet and their officials are also published for each month.

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