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Departmental Rail Travel

Volume 489: debated on Tuesday 10 March 2009

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Mike Penning

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost to her Department was of travel by train by its staff in each year since 1997. (261183)

Mr. Woolas

The Department's expenditure on train travel is set out in the following table.

£000

Home Office

Identity and Passport Service

1996-97

154

1—

1997-98

385

1—

1998-99

498

1—

1999-2000

804

1—

2000-01

1,248

1—

2001-02

1,681

1—

2002-03

2,180

398

2003-04

1,961

453

2004-05

4,273

804

2005-06

6,161

1,237

2006-07

9,262

1,612

2007-08

5,268

1,741

1 Not known.

The Home Office figures for 1996-97 to 2006-07 include expenditure for the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and the Office of Criminal Justice and Reform (OCJR), which transferred to Ministry of Justice on 1 April 2007: these figures could not be deducted from the Home Office total without incurring disproportionate cost.

Of the Department's agencies, expenditure on rail travel in the Identity and Passport Service could not be identified separately until February 2002. The information for the years 1996-97 to 2001-02 could not be provided without incurring disproportionate cost. Criminal Records Bureau cannot identify rail expenditure without incurring disproportionate cost.