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Departmental Travel

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of 12 June 2008 to the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet, Official Report, columns 399-400W, on departmental travel, if she will break down the spend on travel by body. (217521)

The breakdown for the central Department and its agencies for the last three financial years are contained in the following table:

£

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

DFT Rail

89,531

153,944

151,152

DFT(c)

4,740,256

5,508,671

DSA

4,581,027

DVLA

626,723

679,155

685,369

GCDA

198,082

161,394

1.92,285

HA

4,549,000

4,737,000

4,697,000

MCA

1,985,177

1,955,431

2,124,759

VCA

461,979

378,745

432,074

VOSA

Total

12,650,748

13,574,340

12,863,666

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much her Department spent on taxi travel for staff in each of the last three years. (217610)

Five of the Department’s seven agencies (DVLA, GCDA, HA, VOSA and MCA) do not record taxi spend separately from other travel costs, and the information could be only provided at disproportionate cost. Figures for the remaining two agencies, DFT(c) and for DFT (Rail) are included in the following table:

£

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

VCA

2,581.85

2,416.75

2,061.86

DSA

11,256

20,556

DFT Rail

15,272.56

10,615.94

14,457.63

DFT(c)

123,128.94

DSA did not record taxi costs separately before 2006, and the information could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Figures for DFT(c) for 2006-07, and 2007-08 are not currently available, but we expect that they will be by the end of July.