To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much her Department and its predecessor spent on taxis in each year from 2002-03 to 2004-05. (103964)

The Department of Communities and Local Government was formed in May 2006 and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister was created following Machinery of Government changes on 29 May 2002. Expenditure on taxi hire in the three financial years completed since then is as follows.