The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has two contracts with taxi/minicab firms to provide a 24-hour taxi service for staff in London, and to provide a taxi service between Milton Keynes and Hanslope Park, and taxi services for Hanslope Park-based staff for airport journeys.
The out of hours use of the London taxi contract is primarily for those staff called out for emergency work in the crisis centre or other ‘on call’ operational activities.
All travel is undertaken in accordance with the Civil Service Management Code and the Ministerial Code.
The amount spent on taxis for financial year 2006-07 is as follows:
£ Hanslope Park taxi contract 161,708.19 London taxi contract 443,372.48