The sum, made up of car hire, train travel and hotel fees, but excluding restaurant meals, comes at a time when the department is looking to make significant savings.
In April 2009, the DCSF pledged to achieve £650m worth of efficiency savings in 2010-11, with the likelihood being that further cuts will have to be made.
Of the £7,684,937 total spent on expenses, £5.6m went on train fares (9.9 per cent up on 2008) and £1.5m was spent on hotels (26.8 per cent up on 2008).
A further £360,900 was spent on care hire for the ministerial team of seven with £193,122 going on car hire for the rest of the department.
The figures were released following a parliamentary question tabled by Justine Greening, shadow minister communities and local government.
A separate question tabled by Labour's David Drew revealed that department officials booked a total of 6,023 hotel room nights in 2009 and a total of 25,654 over the past three years.
This compares to 3,562 between 2007 and 2009 for the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, 96 for the National Measurement Office, 32 for 11 Million, 40,398 for Ofsted and 3,635 for Cafcass.
Documents on the DCSF website show that permanent secretary David Bell claimed close to £50,000 in the first six months of the current financial year.
Between April and June 2009 Bell cost taxpayers £20,914 in expenses.
This included overnight accommodation in London at a cost of £369.83 and dinner with the managing director of APCO, a public policy and media relations firm, at a cost of £183.
The bulk of the expenses were made up by the use of an official secure car, costing £18,772 for the period.
Between July and September Bell's expenses came to £26,855.
The DCSF was unavailable for comment.
