To ask the Solicitor-General what the cost was to her Department for (a) ministerial cars and
| 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 12002 | |
| (b) Taxis | 19,903 | 9,466 | 10,945 | 15,537 | 20,920 | 17,655 |
| (c) Trains | 50,961 | 46,681 | 62,089 | 74,168 | 100,051 | 99,402 |
| (e) Airline tickets | 68,692 | 37,062 | 83,625 | 152,990 | 139,904 | 86,713 |
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HM Crown Prosecution Service Directorate
HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate does not keep separate accounts in these areas and costs are included in the figures provided by the Crown Prosecution Service and the Treasury Solicitor's DepartmentߞCrown Prosecution Service as a part of their overall accounts for 1997 to 2001 and Treasury Solicitor's Department from 2002 onwards.
Treasury Solicitor's Department
The accounting system operated by the Treasury Solicitor's Department does not hold the information at the detailed level requested.
drivers, (b) taxis, (c) train travel, (d) the use of helicopters, (e) airline tickets and (f) chartered aeroplanes in each year since 1997. [123089]
[holding answer 4 July 2003]:
Crown Prosecution Service
The cost to the Crown Prosecution Service of train travel and airline tickets in each year since 1997 was as follows:
£000
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Train travel
| Airline tickets
| |
| 1997–98 | 483 | 29 |
| 1998–99 | 583 | 25 |
| 1999–2000 | 770 | 39 |
| 2000–01 | 742 | 77 |
| 2001–02 | 1,153 | 151 |
| 2002–03 | 1,517 | 166 |
The Crown Prosecution Service does not separately record expenditure on taxis which could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The costs of taxis are, however, included with other miscellaneous travel expenditure and the aggregate cost of such expenditure is given as follows:
| £000 | |
| 1997–98 | 68 |
| 1998–99 | 70 |
| 1999–2000 | 72 |
| 2000–01 | 90 |
| 2001–02 | 148 |
| 2002–03 | 189 |
Serious Fraud Office
The Serious Fraud Office has not incurred any expenditure providing transport for Ministers and has not used Ministerial cars, helicopters or chartered planes.
Expenditure on the other items is detailed below for each financial year since 1997:
The Department allocates its travel costs between costs incurred in the United Kingdom and abroad, and separately records the cost of Ministerial cars. So far as the Department's records show, the Department has not made use of helicopters or chartered planes since 1997.
The Department's transport costs for each year since 1997 were:
Year ending 31 March
| (a) Ministerial cars and drivers
| Transport in the United Kingdom
| Foreign travel
|
| 1997 | 123,600 | 8,000 | 5,800 |
| 1998 | 234,600 | 18,500 | 21,400 |
| 1999 | 118,500 | 47,200 | 29,200 |
| 2000 | 70,000 | 55,000 | 15,000 |
Year ending 31 March
| (a) Ministerial cars and drivers
| Transport in the United Kingdom
| Foreign travel
|
| 2001 | 59,300 | 61,800 | 26,000 |
| 2002 | 109,800 | 154,800 | 28,200 |
| 2003 | 122,500 | 134,700 | 62,300 |
The budget for my own department, the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers, is administered by the Treasury Solicitor's Department and the figures given by the Treasury-Solicitor's Department include costs incurred by the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers.