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<p>The Department for International Trade (DIT) has spent the amounts listed below
for catering and hospitality in the financial years 2017/2018, 2018/2019 and 2019/2020.
This cost includes both the UK and overseas.</p><p><br>The breakdown is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Financial
Year </strong></td><td><strong> Amount</strong></td></tr><tr><td>April 2017 - March
2018</td><td>£118,579.00</td></tr><tr><td>April 2018 - March 2019</td><td>£158,236.00</td></tr><tr><td>April
2019 – March 2020</td><td>£207,652.07</td></tr><tr><td><strong> Total </strong></td><td><strong>£484,467.07</strong></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Staff at the DIT are located across more than one hundred countries and as
we prepare to leave the EU, our ministers and DIT staff regularly travel overseas
to build relationships with key global trading partners and the Department provides
hospitality or diplomatic entertainment on trade issues.</p><p>This includes through
the 14 trade working groups we have set up across 21 countries to advance the UK's
trade and investment relationships and scope out the potential for future free trade
agreements. The figures include overseas spending.</p>
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