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Departmental Aviation

Volume 479: debated on Monday 29 September 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many individual domestic air flights were undertaken within Great 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. (215561)

The number of UK domestic flights undertaken by representatives of the Department and its agencies from April 2007 to March 2008 is provided in the following table. Information in relation to flights undertaken within Great Britain only is not held by the Department.

Travel by Ministers and civil servants is undertaken in accordance with the Ministerial Code and the Civil Service Management Code respectively.

Agency/Department

Number of flights

Cost (£)

Central Services/Headquarters

3,290

576,440

Disability and Carers Service

183

27,404

Child Support Agency

4,809

798,004

Pension Service

5,617

1,134,032

Jobcentre Plus

4,338

779,446

Total

18,237

3,315,326