Regional Development Agencies: Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many cars were (a) owned and (b) leased by each regional development agency in the most recent year for which figures are available. (184802)

RDAs provide lease cars to staff to enable them to make essential visit to projects and clients. However, the arrangements vary and for example some RDAs pay staff, mileage and other allowances for that purpose. The following details are of cars on long leases and cars owned by each RDA in 2006-07.

RDA	Number of cars owned	Number of cars leased
AWM	0	38
EEDA	0	44
EMDA	¹2	7
LDA	0	3
NWDA	0	79
ONE	0	18
SEEDA	0	46
SWRDA	0	26
YF	0	8
¹ Utility vehicles at Avenue Coking works.

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 20 February 2008