Dominic Raab: “The sea was shut.” Quoi?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9925189/Dominic-Raab-defends-delayed-return-holiday-amid-fall-Kabul.html

UKelectedAdictator, Bilbao , Spain,  
Who paid for his holiday? His hotel costs between 30,000 to 40,000 for 7 nights. I imagine Rabb makes about 100,000 a year. So to spend that kind of money, seems ludicrous unless someone paid for him to stay there.