Departmental Aviation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many individual domestic air flights were undertaken within mainland Britain by representatives of (a) his Department and (b) its agencies in the most recent year for which figures are available; and at what cost. (211004)

The individual domestic air flights undertaken within mainland Britain by representatives against the corporate contract and the associated costs are as follows.

	Number	Total cost 2007-08 (£)
HMT	¹166	39,067
DMO	²3	892
OGC	¹237	52,575
Royal Mint	¹22	7,095
Government Actuary's Department	¹56	5,479
OGCbuying solutions	¹947	116,473
Valuation Office Agency	¹399	50,408
HMRC	¹32,641	1,291,145
¹ Trips ² Return flights.

NS&I can provide this information only at disproportionate cost.

Volume 477: debated on Tuesday 17 June 2008