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FCDO ministerial travel, January to March 2025
Updated 26 June 2025
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Minister | Start Date | End Date | Destination | Purpose of Trip | Mode(s) of Transport | Number of officials who accompanied the minister if non-scheduled flight was taken | Accompanied by spouse/ partner at public expense | Subtotal of all travel costs including any non-scheduled/ RAF flights (£) | Subtotal of associated costs (for minister only) including all visas, accommodation, meals etc. (£) | Total Cost (£) |
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Catherine West | 18/01/2025 | 29/01/2025 | Jakarta and Bali, Indonesia; Dili, Timor Leste; Colombo and Jaffna, Sri Lanka | Bilateral meetings to advance UK diplomatic relations in Southeast Asia and Oceania | Scheduled Flight; Car | N/A | No | £5,320.22 | £1,168.15 | £6,488.37 |
Catherine West | 08/03/2025 | 15/03/2025 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei | Bilateral meetings to advance UK diplomatic relations in Southeast Asia | Scheduled Flight; Car | N/A | No | £6,920.01 | N/A | £6,920.01 |
Jennifer Chapman | 06/01/2025 | 10/01/2025 | Santiago, Chile | Biliteral meetings with Foreign Minister | Scheduled flight | N/A | No | £9,116.02 | N/A | £9,116.02 |
Jennifer Chapman | 27/02/2025 | 03/03/2025 | Montevideo, Uruguay | Attended the Presidential inauguration representing UK | Scheduled flight | N/A | No | £6,706.52 | N/A | £6,706.52 |
Jennifer Chapman | 22/03/2025 | 25/03/2025 | Amman, Jordan | Development focused trip, bilaterals | Scheduled flight | N/A | No | £3,248.02 | N/A | £3,248.02 |
Jennifer Chapman | 26/03/2025 | 27/03/2025 | Paris, France | Nutrition 4 Growth Conference (N4G) | Eurostar | N/A | No | £576.00 | N/A | £576.00 |
Jennifer Chapman | 22/04/2025 | 27/04/2025 | Washington DC, USA | To attend World Bank Spring Meetings | Scheduled flight | N/A | No | £13,278.92 | N/A | £13,278.92 |
Hamish Falconer | 19/01/2025 | 21/01/2025 | New York, USA | Middle East Peace Process UN Security Council Meeting, Bilaterals, roundtable on Syria and Afghanistan. | Scheduled Flight | N/A | No | £6,993.02 | N/A | £6,993.02 |
Hamish Falconer | 08/02/2025 | 08/02/2025 | Lisbon, Portugal | Funeral of Aga Khan | Scheduled Flight | N/A | No | £628.72 | N/A | £628.72 |
Hamish Falconer | 02/03/2025 | 04/03/2025 | Ankara, Turkey | Syria dialogue with Turkish counterparts. | Scheduled Flight | N/A | No | £269.46 | N/A | £269.46 |
Hamish Falconer | 17/03/2025 | 18/03/2025 | Brussels, Belgium | International pledging conference on Syria | Eurostar | N/A | No | £338.00 | N/A | £338.00 |
Raymond Collins | 06/01/2025 | 08/01/2025 | Accra, Ghana | To attend the Ghanian Presidential Inauguration | Scheduled Flight | N/A | No | £5,786.37 | £315.50 | £6,101.87 |
Raymond Collins | 13/01/2025 | 17/01/2025 | Gaborone, Botswana | To hold bilateral meetings with the Government of Botswana, business and civil society. | Scheduled Flight | N/A | No | £5,160.32 | £3.05 | £5,163.32 |
Raymond Collins | 16/02/2025 | 20/02/2025 | Nairobi, Kenya; Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania | To hold bilateral meetings with the Government of Kenya and Government of Tanzania, Business and Civil Society | Scheduled Flight | N/A | No | £5,101.72 | £121.16 | £5,222.88 |
Raymond Collins | 24/02/2025 | 25/02/2025 | Geneva, Switzerland | Attend UN Human Rights Council and International Labour Organisation | Scheduled Flight | N/A | No | £536.42 | £22.19 | £558.61 |
Raymond Collins | 12/03/2025 | 14/03/2025 | New York, USA | Attend UN Commission on the Status of Women as the Minister for Multilateral and Human Rights | Scheduled Flight | N/A | No | £3,170.02 | £34.71 | £3,204.73 |
Raymond Collins | 19/03/2025 | 22/03/2025 | Windhoek, Namibia | To attend the Namibian inauguration | Scheduled Flight | N/A | No | £4,633.88 | £4.88 | £4,638.76 |
Stephen Doughty | 15/01/2025 | 16/01/2025 | Lisbon, Portugal; Madrid, Spain | To advance growth and security objectives and promote bilateral relations | Scheduled flight | N/A | No | £714.82 | £42.15 | £756.91 |
Stephen Doughty | 27/01/2025 | 28/01/2025 | Podgorica, Montenegro; Belgrade, Serbia | To meet government counterparts to demonstrate UK support for regional security, counter organised crime, growth & supporting Western Balkans partners’ euro-Atlantic paths | Scheduled flight | N/A | No | £534.22 | £45.54 | £579.76 |
Stephen Doughty | 06/02/2025 | 06/02/2025 | Brussels, Belgium | To further UK-EU cooperation on security and defence | Eurostar | N/A | No | £261.05 | £36.93 | £297.98 |
Stephen Doughty | 19/02/2025 | 19/02/2025 | Paris, France | To advance security and migration objectives | Eurostar | N/A | No | £433.00 | £28.93 | £461.93 |
Stephen Doughty | 20/02/2025 | 21/02/2025 | Madrid, Spain | To attend Gibraltar discussions | Scheduled flight | N/A | No | £729.92 | £26.35 | £756.27 |
Stephen Doughty | 25/02/2025 | 28/02/2025 | Warsaw, Poland | To discuss UK-Poland priorities with Polish government | Scheduled flight | N/A | No | £510.21 | £491.37 | £1,001.58 |
Stephen Doughty | 27/02/2025 | 28/02/2025 | Kyiv, Ukraine | To discuss UK support for Ukraine and UK-Ukraine 100 Year Parternship and meet counterparts | Train | N/A | No | £1,921.44 | N/A | £1,921.44 |
Stephen Doughty | 06/03/2025 | 07/03/2025 | Nicosia, Cyprus | To meet Republic of Cyprus government counterparts and engage with Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities ahead of informal 5+1 meeting in Geneva later in the March, and UK forces serving in UNFICYP | Scheduled flight | N/A | No | £770.22 | £38.26 | £808.48 |
Stephen Doughty | 17/03/2025 | 18/03/2025 | Geneva, Switzerland | To represent the UK at the UN-facilitated 5+1 informal meeting on Cyprus | Scheduled flight | N/A | No | £279.82 | £574.75 | £854.57 |
Anneliese Dodds | Nil Return | Nil Return | Nil Return | Nil Return | Nil Return | Nil Return | Nil Return | Nil Return | Nil Return | Nil Return |
David Lammy | 09/01/2025 | 09/01/2025 | Rome, Italy | Attend a Quint group meeting on Syria | Non-Scheduled Flight | 8 | No | £38,844.50 | N/A | £38,844.50 |
David Lammy | 11/01/2025 | 13/01/2025 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Jerusalem, Israel; Ramallah, Occupied Palestinian Territories | Meeting with the Arab Contact group in Saudi Arabia to discuss Syria, and discussions with Israeli and Palestinian counterparts to push for a ceasefire. | Non-Scheduled Flight | 14 | No | £154,212.50 | N/A | £154,212.50 |
David Lammy | 17/01/2025 | 17/01/2025 | Sofia, Bulgaria | To launch the Children's Care Campaign globally | G-GBNI Aircraft; Non-Scheduled Flight | 10 | No | £79,204.00 | N/A | £79,204.00 |
David Lammy | 23/01/2025 | 25/01/2025 | Cairo, Egypt; N'Djamena, Chad | To attend the biannual UK-Egypt Association Council (Egypt). To drive new international commitment to a political process towards ending the conflict in Sudan (Chad). | G-GBNI Aircraft | 18 | No | £162,317.80 | N/A | £162,317.80 |
David Lammy | 31/01/2025 | 31/01/2025 | Tunis, Tunisia | To support projects in North Africa to tackle drivers of small boats arrivals in Europe and the UK | G-GBNI Aircraft | 12 | No | £59,493.12 | N/A | £59,493.12 |
David Lammy | 04/02/2025 | 05/02/2025 | Kyiv, Ukraine | Meeting with President Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian officials, to reiterate the UK’s ongoing support for Ukraine | RAF Flight | 9 | No | £29,500.00 | £138.00 | £29,638.00 |
David Lammy | 12/02/2025 | 12/02/2025 | Paris, France | Attend the Paris Foreign Ministers' Meeting on Ukraine | Non-Scheduled Flight & Train; Eurostar | 6 | No | £10,849.50 | N/A | £10,849.50 |
David Lammy | 14/02/2025 | 16/02/2025 | Munich, Germany | Attend the Munich Security Conference | Scheduled Flight; Non-Scheduled Flight | 10 | No | £29,945.82 | £1,210.74 | £31,156.56 |
David Lammy | 20/02/2025 | 23/02/2025 | Johannesburg, South Africa; Kinshasa, Democratic of the Congo; Kigali, Rwanda | Attend G20 Ministerial meeting (South Africa) | G-GBNI Aircraft | 16 | No | £292,456.38 | £460.87 | £292,917.25 |
David Lammy | 26/02/2025 | 27/02/2025 | Washington DC, USA | To accompany the PM to a bilateral with President Trump and a subsequent meeting with Secretary Rubio | Scheduled Flight | N/A | No | £15,068.02 | N/A | £15,068.02 |
David Lammy | 06/03/2025 | 08/03/2025 | Tokyo, Japan; Manila, Philippines | Attend the UK-Japan Economic 2+2 Dialogue (Japan), Bilateral relations (Philippines) | G-GBNI Aircraft | 12 | No | £272,596.94 | £1,834.52 | £274,431.46 |
David Lammy | 13/03/2025 | 16/03/2025 | Quebec, Canada; New York and Washington DC, US | Attend the G7 Ministerial meeting in Canada. ODA meeting with Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, in New York. Engage with the US Administration in Washington. | G-GBNI Aircraft; Non-Scheduled Flight | 13 | No | £175,368.84 | £1,415.20 | £176,784.04 |
David Lammy | 30/03/2025 | 31/03/2025 | Lisbon, Portugal; Madrid, Spain | Bilateral meetings (Portugal) and attend the Weimar+ meeting (Spain) | Non-Scheduled Flight | 12 | No | £40,923.30 | N/A | £40,923.30 |