Ms Bradshaw has said: "The public will rightly be concerned that this expenditure on hospitality at foreign bureaux, combined with other alarming figures such as the nearly £2 million every year spent on agency staff within the department, suggest that the First Minister and deputy First Minister do not have a grip on their own department's spending.
"Fundamentally, people understand the need for foreign bureaux promoting Northern Ireland as a destination for business and tourism to spend money on hospitality, but this is being spent in the absence of a departmental strategy. No one, including the ministers themselves, can have any idea whether this is value for money because there is no strategy for the spending to be set against.
"Added to the worrying picture being painted of a department unable to recruit and retain its own staff and to the fact that the operations of the NI Bureau in Beijing, and we have an organisation funded by the public which is simply not functioning properly.
"At a time when the First and deputy First Minister are quick to remind us that funding is tight, there is an alarming amount of waste evident in their department. We need to see a plan for reducing agency spend on staff and the urgent publication of an International Relations Strategy, given not only that the last one was outdated, but also that a new one is now overdue."